For the past two years the Avatar Project has developed a community of young people creating, building and interacting in virtual worlds, with some tremendous outcomes.
My project blog has some examples of the work we were doing, the research outcomes are due later this year.
We are now in the research and writing phase of the project.
A highlight of receiving the award was going up to Sydney for the ceremony and conference where Mark Pesce, the inventor of VRML was the MC. I remember around 8 years ago struggling to make a 3 dimensional nightclub using VRML - it was one of my first forays into virtual worlds - so finally (very briefly) meeting him was the perfect end to a great project.
