November 2006: An great interview with Bruce Damer on news.com titled "How virtual worlds got off the ground" A brief history of the virtual world. You can read the article here.

February 2006: WB05 e-Symposium. Avatar Panel 5 "Virtual Real versus Real Virtual". More information available here.


January 2006: DigitalSpace is participating as a team member on the RLEP2 (Robotic Lunar Exploration Program) surface mobility trades team during the "pre-phase A" work on this planned 2011 robotic mission to the Lunar south pole. This mission will look for water ice and other useful materials in the permanently shadowed areas of polar Lunar craters. The presence of water ice could aid humanity in creating a more sustainable presence on the moon in the future. DigitalSpace is producing a series of design prototype simulations including vehicles and lunar terrain for use in the surface mobility (rover) trade studies.


January 2006: A presentation made by Bruce Damer of DigitalSpace at the October 2005 LEAG conference is described by science writer Trudy Bell in Astronomy Magazine: "Moon conference looks to the future". This was also included in the March 2006 issue of Astronomy Magazine. DigitalSpace was also mentioned in Air & Space (Smithsonian) Magazine in another article by Trudy, you can read the article here(PDF).

See Also: This year's upcoming events