what is second life? best fictional analogs are stephenson’s metaverse from “snow crash” or...
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What is Second Life?
Best fictional analogs are Stephenson’s Metaverse from “Snow Crash”
or Vinge’s Otherverse from “True Names.”
What happens when you give everyone powerful tools to shape their world?
A Waking Dream made Real……and Shared
3D modeling
Breathing Life into Objects with Scripting
property rights
In Second Life, residents own their creationsWhat does this mean?• Residents retain their Intellectual Property rights to their
creations• Residents may buy and sell L$ for real world $• Residents may license their creations back into the real world
Emotional Bandwidth
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Emotional Bandwidth
Use real-world social cues and proxemics
Create your visual identity
Animations and sounds add more depth
Video shared in a Community Space
Music shared in a Community Space
“Machinima” – www.bellsandspurs.com
Movies created in a Community Space
Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space
Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space
Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space
“I’m still working on my slides.”
“Yeah…me too.”
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
“It took 65 years after the invention of the printing press for someone to decide that putting page numbers on books was a good idea! The essay took a century to be invented; thus it is quite likely that the enduring and serious forms of the new media have not been invented. We are still mired in the imitation of the old: paper, film, and tape.” – Alan Kay
Who will be the next Sergei Eisenstein?
