When “Avatar” won a Peabody Award, in 2008, the judges praised, among other qualities, its “healthy respect for the consequences of warfare.”Despite these themes, it never mistakes ...

When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world ...

A small step for an avatar could turn out to be a giant leap for avatar-kind. In Second Life Linden Lab, creator of animated world Second Life, which people explore using simulated figures, is ...

'Second Life' avatar sued over virtual sex device. By ABC News. August 10, 2007, 7:15 PM. TAMPA -- Kevin Alderman didn't bring sex to Second Life. He just made it better.

It’s getting busy these days in Second Life, the online virtual world that is everybody’s favorite Web 2.0 success story, even as some debate just how successful it really is.

SAN FRANCISCO – A startup billing itself as the Better Business Bureau for virtual worlds wants to provide a rating system for avatars — players' online representations — in "Second Life ...

Second Life has more than 16.4 million registered users. Those users become attached to their avatars, but they can only use them in one world. With Weblin, the avatars are liberated.

Life user Kevin Alderman of Lutz, Fla., created the very interactive bed, which... Avatars, attorneys in new world of virtual law SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A startup billing itself as the Better Business Bureau for virtual worlds wants to provide a rating system for avatars – players’ online representations – in “Second Life ...

Steve H., who has been on Second Life for about five years, lives in Arizona where he works for the local government. He met one of his best friends while working out at an in-world gym. It should ...

For those of you who are keen on hands-free avatar expressiveness in the virtual environment of Second Life comes a surprise third-party viewer from vr-wear.com.This beta viewer for Windows or Mac ...

Ad agency Leo Burnett is building a facility to encourage collaboration among its 2,400 creative staffers around the world, but employees won't have to leave their desks to get there. The company ...