Half-virtual, to be more precise.
Tomorrow, May 7, at the City Theater of Vicenza, Italy, born from colaboration of The Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, The Teatro Sociale di Rovigo and The Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, will take place the first representation of Verdi's Rigoletto featuring - virtual reality.
In this unique mise-en-scene, all the scenery for [...]

In a post on Virtual Economy Research Network, Professor Richard Heeks is summarizing several key facts about the gold farming activity in China.

There are 400.000 people involved in gold farming/trading in a realistic estimate. This number can be as high as 1.000.000 people.
There are around 60.000 brokerages all aroud the country.
Brokers (those doing the actual [...]

This week, Linden Lab awarded two projects with the the first edition of Linden Prize, to recognize their achievements in making Second Life more practical for the real world (you can see a strong message here, can't you?).
One of them, Virtual Ability (just for note, the second one was Studio Wikitecture), is a non profit [...]

On May 6, in Strasbourg, France, a workshop will be organized by the Council of Europe and its European Audiovisual Observatory, with the goal to explore the guidelines interpreting Human Rights in an online context.
Two sets of guidelines have been published the last October. The documents are the following :

The Human Rights Guidelines for Online [...]

EternalSpace unveiled last week a completely new type of online memorials, in the form a virtual cemetery where people can mourn, share sorrow for and with their loved ones, and - spend money!
So, how does it work? Funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories, who are all searching new and modern (why?) ways to differentiate their offers [...]