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August 8
14:32 Uhr

Conformity magic in action: Elevator Psychology and The London Underground

Conformity (group pressure leads to actions against rational judgement) can do pretty spooky stuff, and if you think that today is any different than the fifties: find an elevator which has two doors, take some friends with you and do your own psychological experiment.

— Elevator Psychology and The London Underground (via feedly)

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“ magicians and cognitive neuroscientists are getting at similar questions, but while neuroscientists have been looking at this for a few decades, magicians have been looking at this for centuries, millennia probably

How magicians control your mind - The Boston Globe

It’s all about the way our brain perceives things and who knows better than magicians, who fool your perception professionally, how that works? This article is about the beginning collaboration of neuroscientists and magicians (no joke).
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link Virtual Worlds as the Catalyst for an AI Renaissance

Article (old but still interesting) on KurzweilAI.net: Artificial Intelligence Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds by Ben Goertzel, Oct. 2007. I would like to know what happened to the ESC project of the virtual intelligent pets (and I will ask them)
August 7
“ 90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months

Steve Prentice, Gartner Consulting, at Gartner Emerging Trends Symposium/ITxpo May 2008 in Barcelona

Well if you don’t want to be one of them contact me.
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link Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Pink User Interface - From MyLife to Second Life?

Pretty avatars in pink…”Think of it as training wheels for girls who will one day grow up to be long-legged blondes in Second Life. (…)”
July 24
link Endlich: Eingebaute Lippensynchronisation in Second Life

Was die Kommunikation in virtuellen 3D-Welten angeht, vor allem in der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen, ist die fehlende gewohnte nonverbale Komunikation immer noch ein großes Manko. In Second Life gab es…
July 23
link How Intelligent Have Second Life AIs Become? [New World Notes]

The answer is: not very. Hamlet Au describes his conversation with a “robotar”, a computer controlled avatar and chatbot. He was mostly impressed by the nonverbal movements the helper bot made - she turned in his direction, for example - but there are some bot applications/services available today which allow these things (Pikkubot for example). I should tell him about it, but right now I’ve got to catch a movie :-)

Justin Gibbs wrote an interesting article about NPCs and their role in our future digitized life and I couldn’t agree more with his thoughts.
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link Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers

…and not just the venture-funded ones » VentureBeat

Typical virtual good: a Facebook app to waste your time (and that of your friends)