As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to ...

Looking to bring that Second Life avatar one step closer to reality? Fabjectory will take your virtual object file and turn it into a 7-inch voodoo doll. The company says logos, tattoos and rings make ...

The virtual world Second Life is popular among disabled people, many of whose limitations in the real world appear nonexistent in the digital environment. Assuming alter-egos, they can fly, run, dance ...

Could Vodafone Island become a cash cow? Over the last few months, Vodafone has withdrawn from a number of territories - Japan, Sweden and Belgium have all seen the operator wave goodbye. But now the ...

A poignant documentary delves into how embodying digital characters in virtual worlds like Second Life empowers people to become their true selves. In Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is me! filmmaker ...

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 ...