Month: December 2006

[itvt], the world-leading newsletter on interactive television run by Tracey Swedlow, are running their own industry event: The TV of Tomorrow Show on March 13th-14th in California.

It will be the first industry event to focus exclusively on the delivery of interactive TV on multiple platforms (e.g. cable, satellite, telco TV, wireless, Internet TV, DVRs, handheld devices, iPods, game consoles, etc.)

They will also be presenting their

inaugural Awards for Corporate Achievement in Interactive and Multiplatform Television at an awards ceremony at the TV of Tomorrow Show, on the evening of Tuesday, March 13th. While our prestigious annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplaform Television

This event will be well curated and attended, check out further details here: www.thetvoftomorrowshow.com

 The 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications has put out a call for papers and a call for games:

The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. Previous PerGames events were held in Vienna (2004), Munich (2005), Dublin (2006) and attracted researchers and practitioners from all over the world.

This time, we call for four categories of participation:

* Research Papers
* Research Posters
* Live Demonstrations
* Citywide Games

 Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

* Mixed reality installations
* Innovative input devices
* Augmented tabletop games
* Emerging pervasive game concepts
* Augmented reality games
* (Mis-)use of enabling technologies in games
* Mobile computing entertainment
* Business cases for pervasive computing games
* Privacy and awareness issues in pervasive games
* Mixing games and serious applications

Possible types of Citywide Games include (but are not limited to):

* Mobile phone games
* Augmented reality games
* Casual games
* Alternate reality games
* Online on street games
* Event-based games
* Proximity games
* Crossmedia games
* Technology-enhanced larp games

See the website for more detail: www.PerGames.de

RealTime Magazine, an arts magazine that I write for here in Oz, commissioned me to write an article introducing Second Life. Here it is: A Second Life Living Online.