We posted an interview today with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of Masher Media, which is developing a virtual world for kids, MyMiniPeeps.com. The firm is not the first–nor will it be the last–virtual world to surface out of Southern California’s technology landscape. Does Southern California have something which seems to encourage virtual world companies? [...]

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Video Games, Virtual Reality by Benjamin Kuo

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment, which is developing technology for creating 3D avatars, debuted its technology at CES at the Intel keynote earlier this week. Luis Villalobos, founder of the Tech Coast Angels, this evening pointed me to the webcast of the keynote for anyone who is interested in seeing the video of their demo. [...]

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Startups, Virtual Reality by Benjamin Kuo

Tired of getting endless credit card offers in your mailbox? Well, start expecting to see them all over your email, as well. A Singapore firm has just rolled out a new credit card, for the popular online virtual world Second Life. The credit card, which is good for the purchase of items in the virtual [...]

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Virtual Reality by Benjamin Kuo

There seems to be an ecosystem growing around creating, customizing, and developing animated avatars. Avatars are virtual characters either posted to a web site or used in virtual worlds like Second Life. I spoke a few weeks ago to Dan Lejerskar of EON Reality about a tool they’ve created which creates a 3D face based [...]

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Virtual Reality by Benjamin Kuo

We recently posted an interview I did with Dan Lejerskar, Chairman of a firm in Irvine called EON Reality for our socalTECH Q&A interview section. After talking with Dan, I was impressed by the number of 3D technologies they have working in production–some of which I’ve heard numerous startups talking about working on, or trying [...]

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Virtual Reality by Benjamin Kuo