Those who visit Rezzable regions regularly will have noticed: the hobo community moved in recently. Now the head-hobo Orhalla Zander has an engaged an atomic to relay his orders, notices, event invites and best wishes for 2009 to the hobos through YouTube video message. Mr Oz hopes this will save him time on writing notices and clearing out misunderstandings about what "Oz said". The payment this poor atomic gets in exchange for his 'representative duties'? Of course, a can of beans, hobo-style. But, well, the atomic seems to enjoy it:

Online registration closes in 2 days, this Thursday, 16 October, at 23:59 London time, for next week's Virtual Worlds London conference and expo.  It's 795 GBP to attend - unless you stick the code 'REZZABLEVIP' in the box on this registration page - the full conference and 95 GBP to attend the expo-only, but again you can stick the code 'REZZABLEVIP in the registration page. Rezzable may give away 30 29 28 FREE expo badges. These will get you into the Expo Hall during both show days, 20-21 October 2008. The pass also gains you access to FastPitch.

Virtual Worlds London, 20-21 October 2008, is the leading European event for businesses seeking to understand and maximize business strategies within virtual worlds. VW London takes place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, two blocks from Parliament. On the speakers list are amongst others Marc 'Linden' Kingdon and our very own CEO Jon 'RightasRain' Himoff.

To satisfy your curiosity, we've found some photographs from the last time I visited the Rezzable HQ in London. Sadly enough, RaR succeeded at escaping the camera BUT I did get a few nice ones from Miss Lokum:

Miss Lokum, working

... or gender bending. Kinda depends on how you look at it. Male skin testing, she claimed!

Miss Lokum, checking progress on top secret 'Project Grow Pose Ball'

Ok. I guess I screwed the 'secret' part up. Anyway, our R&D department says that it's going fine, but we're encountered some minor problems with letting a diversity of animations grow inside. Also, inserting Mono into the tree's DNA is giving us some problems.

Rezzable Rooftop

We have written before on how just fanatic WoW players can get - check out the WoWpod -, but this is a new one: two WoW fans decided to race across the Azeroth area on Real Life Foot. How did they do that? They hooked up two threadmills to their PC's and using the WoW scripting engine for input devices, they track the speed of their threadmills and convert that to in-world movement. Keep in mind: where the WoW character runs 12 miles/hour (20km/h), their humans only need to run 6 miles/hour (10km/h).

It's all quite a big topic these days--yes, Virtual World is hot stuff. Lot of money getting dished out on many new platforms that will hit the market hard in 2009 (see our watch list here) . Makes us all the early lab rats adopters in this exciting space blah blah blah. But, actually there a few events that seems to have some energy and some interesting things going on and there is one even coming to visit us here in London! Yes, VirtualWorldNews.com (is a little hype-overload, but also has lot of good info on stuff and their weekly newspam is ok) is running an event called er...Virtual Worlds London anyway, you probably get the main idea here--it's about virtual worlds and in London. Event runs October 20-21 which is a lovely time of year here as well (some other good London deal promos here).