Job interviews in SL

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/397921/have_a_job_interview_in_second_life.html

Augmented Reality Game for Android

A first glimpse of a game for the so-called Google phone includes "WiFi Army", a first-person shooter that's a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin.

From Forbes:

Participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras. Those with the highest number of "unique kills" earn points and bragging rights. As the name suggests, players can form "armies" of up to 100 people.

The game is the brainchild of 23-year-old Chicago entrepreneur Peter Wojtowicz, who goes by his screen name, Peter Whatanitch. He describes WiFi Army as "augmented reality," meaning it brings aspects of virtual reality, such as the concept of an online army, to the real world. Its blend of GPS, wi-fi networking and Google applications points up Android's potential to reshape mobile phones and the way people use them.

Sound familiar?

Virtual Destruction

Russell might be into this, seeing he likes to blow up islands in Second Life.

From a Clive Thompson article in Wired.

I plowed into the intersection at about 140 miles an hour and boom -- slammed headfirst into an oncoming four-door sedan. Ouch.

And: Wow. The scene immediately shifted into John Woo-style slow motion. The cars reared upward, groaning, like two fighting antelopes; my hood crumpled into an origami flower, the metal bending like tin foil. The windshield became a fistful of glittering ice, hurled into the air. A tire pirouetted away like an escaping planet.

Let me tell you: It was beautiful.

Interviewing in SecondLife

Job interviewing in Second Life! With your avatar.

Check out the article in The New York Times.

A handful of employers are also exploring the world of Multi-User Virtual Environments, or MUVEs.

Second Life is one of these MUVEs. A handful of corporate customers have bought virtual space, called “islands,” in this virtual reality to use for “in world” meetings, and a growing number in this group is recruiting there, too. Linden Lab doesn’t keep statistics on how many of its corporate customers handle hiring this way, but it says the number has grown exponentially since Second Life began in 2003.

Much of the recruitment is done through job fairs. TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, an advertising firm in New York, held two virtual job fairs last year, events that included employers like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Verizon Communications and Sodexho, a food and facilities management services company. Bain & Company, the global management consultants in Boston, has sponsored virtual job fairs in Second Life, as well.

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