I, Lamont

Tweet You may remember the class exercise for CMS.863J (Computer Games and Simulations for Investigation and Education, taught by Eric Klo...

(Updated: See note at bottom of post) What can you learn from the MMORPG World of Warcraft ? A lot, it turns out. This is one of my conclusi...

During lunch at the Media Lab last week, I told a friend that synthesized voices will never sound like the real thing. It was in the contex...

My kids like Webkinz World , Ganz's kids-oriented virtual world that is based on the purchase of real-world stuffed toys. During a visi...

This is a post about a remarkable pop song that you've probably never heard of, unless you have kids under the age of 10 who are famili...

Spotted on Fake Steve Jobs : A video from a Taiwanese news program that depicts Tiger Woods' car crash using 3D animation (starts at 15 ...

(See part I of the review here ) (Update: Richard at ClueHQ has responded in a blog post. The link to the post and my response to him is at...

Longtime readers of the I, Lamont blog may remember an episode from a few years back, involving the Ganz Corporation's poorly planned an...

(Update at bottom) This is interesting. A university professor has released a sociology study (which will soon be made into a book) using p...

I've been playing videogames since the 1970s. I didn't try out a first-person shooter until 1996, when I happened upon a copy of Do...

(Note: Since writing the post below, I have taken a for-credit online math course. My review of the online math class can be read here.) La...

More questions from the interview with the Emerson graduate student: Question: What role do virtual worlds like Second Life play in publis...

Last night at 11 pm, I finally published the epic interview with Ginsu Yoon, which I conducted last week when I visited  Linden Lab HQ . You...

Earlier this week I visited San Francisco to meet with colleagues and also to conduct some Second Life-related interviews at Linden Lab HQ. ...

I've gotten a spike in traffic over the last week or so to this blog, caused by hundreds of people searching for help for their Webkinz ...

At EmTech '08 yesterday, I heard Microsoft's research and strategy chief talk about the company's cutting-edge technologies. Cra...

This post was originally part of my epic last entry for the Harvard Extended blog, but I have decided to split it off and post it here, too....