As part of its virtual world developer outreach program, AMD & Metaversatility are hosting a scavenger hunt in Second Life! Visitors to AMD Dev Central Island will discover a number of randomly placed quiz kiosks. These interactive kiosks will challenge users on their knowledge of cutting-edge technology, such as AMD Fusion™, ATI Stream, OpenCL™, and more. As you progress through the experience, discovering and interacting with 10 different kiosks along the way, you will be eligible for exclusive and custom-developed in-world prizes. After completing all of the 10 treasure hunt quiz questions, USA and Canada (excluding Quebec) participants will be eligible to enter to win the grand prize, an AMD processor-based system. (See contest rules for details and restrictions).

AMD has always fostered a strong interest in virtual worlds and hard-core gaming, and it has had a Second Life presence for over three years now. We have designed the treasure hunt event to make it easy to learn more about AMD’s developer resources, and most of the challenge answers can be found on our web site, AMD Developer Central. Our site is a free portal full of tools, information, and resources, all focused on growing our software developer community. We're excited to continue to blend and merge our real-world presence with our virtual world presence, so we welcome you to come visit our island and start playing, today!

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As part of some early design work for an upcoming kids virtual world, we put together this promo video for our friends over at World Awareness Entertainment.

Give it a look-see

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Unearthed this old video piece we made for Orange's Machinima Week a while back. The song we composed for it actually bears an uncanny resemblence to a track off the newest Beach House album... funny business or collective pool of creativity?! You be the judge.

Beach House - Zebra

Metaversatility (Jaime & Leonard Rader Composing) - Orange Machinima Week

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We are among a few companies recently included in the group of Second Life Gold Solution Providers.

The newest Gold Program members continue to reflect the strength and diversity of the experience, skill, and clients engaged by the Second Life Solution Provider community. Some of the projects that they have developed and provided for prominent companies, organizations, and educational and government institutions include:

• Developing simulations for training nurses at a major national hospital
• Building and managing a large community of residents around an international telecom brand
  
• Managing and running a long running popular show held in Second Life on enterprise uses of virtual worlds, integrating inworld, real world and  web experiences
  
• Organizing and managing large internal conference for a major IT company
  
• Partnering with a major US fitness chain and a university to develop and integrate use of Second Life into a weight loss program
• Working closely with client to leverage Second Life to research and explore and the role of virtual worlds in the the future of the workforce

More information on the Second Life In-World Blog.

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This collage is one of my personal favorite results of our 3-year Orange campaign :). Click to see full-size, but be forewarned: it's a doozy

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Karl Fisch & Scott McLeod put this fantastic little piece together...

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Looks like the singularity is nearer than we thought. This interview was linked by friend and contemporary Ben Goertzel from Novamente, with whom we worked on some modest content dev a while back. Worth a read.

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Today, we hosted our third Idea Exchange discussion with Idea City, but it was the very first audio-based event. Ellen interviewed Michael Schutzler on TalkShoe about his leadership experience and newly released book, Inspiring Excellence. The interview was streamed live into Second Life and Metaplace, and the text chat was bridged between the worlds. You can listen to the entire interview here.

About Michael Schutzler:

Michael SchutzlerMichael Schutzler is a successful business coach with more than a dozen years experience coaching and mentoring CEOs, executives, and board members. Michael developed a passion for and expertise in leadership over the course of twenty-five years in a wide variety of executive and management roles in notable companies, including Harris Corporation, RR Donnelley & Sons, Classmates.com, and RealNetworks.

As an independent venture investor, he has helped launch more than a dozen Internet and technology companies. Michael has also served in leadership roles in nonprofit organizations and public school committees. He holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from the W. E. Simon School at University of Rochester and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

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