Was able to pop into Second life and attend a couple of sessions run by the [1] Serious Games Institute on uses of technology in heritage and tourism. Was so impressed by the quality of the video, slides and audio streaming from all 3 screens - its better than I have experienced elsewhere in Second Life (but I have not got that much SL experience).

The sessions were excellent too, a great one from Ron Edwards of [2] Ambient Performance where he did an amazing demo showing virtual objects - I think it was via a RFID tag on something on the floor but wasn’t completely sure, and explaining many ways that you can make museums more interactive for visitors moving around by use of a mobile device. Also explained about a new venture [3] Creative Encounters game and how you could use a mobile device when attending conferences, for social networking by finding information on your device using profile details that have been entered and an in-house messaging system. Imagine if you added in GPS and could locate them - either suppliers (anyone who has spent a long time walking around all of BETT will know how nice this could be) or colleagues with similar interests. I don’t know if this is already a feature.

The work coming out of the SGI is really innovative - I think the sessions from today will be streamed via this [4] link soon