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For those who haven’t seen it yet, you can now check out the virtual Aloft Hotel that the Electric Sheep Company (sponsors of this blog) have built out for Starwood Hotels. Just head over to aloft island, which is now open to the public, and check in to the prototype hotel. You can read about the process of creating the model as well at the Virtual Aloft blog. Part of the idea is to get feedback from visitors, so don’t forget to drop a line to frontdesk [AT] virtualaloft.com with your opinion of the build. Let us know how the room service is.

Check out the latest SecondCast, in which most of the ‘casters (I was absent with the flu) do stuff like try on pants from our “Get Philip in Your Pants” contest, and chat with a live audience in Second Life. Special guest Koz Farina talks about his very cool BlogHUD, and the podcasters generally run off at the mouth in what became a marathon after-hours session. Listen in on one of the more hilarious episodes in the SecondCast archives.

3pointD has been making some appearances in print lately. While the travel guide to the virtual world of Second Life we contributed to in the October issue of Wired won’t be available until October 17, we (that is I, Mark Wallace) do have a long piece on “The Future of You” in PC World magazine, as well as on their Web site. “Think the Net has changed your life?” ask the editors, in the article’s subhed. “Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment–and it will.” (more…)