Second Life is super cool. I've had an account and play around with it every once in a while for the last year and a half. Recently I had a theater showing movies from the Archive but it was too expensive for the amount of time I spent playing the game.
-- Verdi <URL: http://michaelverdi.com/ > <URL: http://freevlog.org/ > <URL: http://node101.org/ > On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:20 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: > A couple of months ago, Amanda did an interview inside the VR world > called Second LIfe: > http://secondlife.com/ > > She created an avatar, flew around inside the engine and met other > people in a 3D chat lecture hall to give a speech. > > About a month ago, I downloaded the application and jumped in and I > feel like this is the perhaps the most profound thing I have ever > come across in my life. > > In terms of videoblogging, the potential is absolutely, incredibly, > super daunting, perhaps because within this virtual world, you > transcend locational bounderies now restricted by time and money. To > add a layer of photo realism would be the end all. > > I cant tell you enough how much I recommend checking this out. I feel > like I have seen aliens from another world and they are me, it feels > so real. > > We are looking for a correspondent from Second Life for Rocketboom so > if anyone is into this or happens to get really hard core into this, > let me know. Its one of those things you could live your entire > life by. > > The thing that I think makes this so impressive, is the feeling that > it is really me inside there. > > For some reason, my avatar flying around in there looks just real > enough to allow me to get sucked into to the reality of it, much like > getting sucked into a film, only in this case its actually me that is > the character. > > They just made it free too: > http://secondlife.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -------------------- > ~--> > Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital > divide today! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
