--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What they should do, is create a bunch of firewalled > Second LIfe islands ala what IBM does for its secure > corporate meetings and have daily face to face (virtual) > meetings (that will almost certainly happen within a > few years for national-level campaigns).
I've never understood the fascination that some people have with "virtual worlds." Don't these people have real lives? Don't they *like* their real lives? JOOC, what does your avatar look like in Second Life, Lawson? Does it look like you look in real life? In the only one of these silly places I ever played with (I got bored within a week), I made a 3D avatar of myself, from photos. It seemed the only honest thing to do, since the "world" was populated with gay guys with the avatars of buxsome babes and skinny wimps with avatars that looked like Ahnold and fat guys with avatars that looked like Brad Pitt and nerds who have trouble lifting a mouse wielding big broadswords. What IS the fascination you see with this virtual world stuff, eh? It seems to me that existing conference software with TV cameras would be a great deal more effective (and more sane and safer than for the world) than a bunch of guys and gals having meetings while pretend- ing to be Superman and Wonder Woman.
