Pretty exciting news on NPIRL : the new virtual world Blue Mars is about to be launched. Bettina Tizzy writes: Jim Sink, vice president of Hawaii-based Avatar Reality, the company that owns Blue Mars, shared with me last night that they plan on rolling out their first registrations to the “many, many thousands of players” on their waiting list on Monday, August 3, and open Beta for all is scheduled for August 31st. So this is it. Blue Mars will be very immersive and scalable, so Sink
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