Photoreal or Real?
Couple of weeks ago second life media was full of Cyber Extruder. As far as I understood, you send them a pile of photographs of your human face and body, and they make a shape for your body according to them. Then, they glue a skin made of your photos on that mash and… mirror, mirror on the monitor….
Tips For Better Second Life
Nicholaz Baresford a.k.a the mad patcher is one of those residents that spend their time enjoying the opportunities of open-source, messing the code, tweaking and fixing the second life client. Now, we are about to see what a guy that really knows what he's talking about have to say about how to make your second life better. At least in the meaning of the performance of the client.
Giving Your Gender Out
In today's blog post Letizia made a little surprise to all of us. She even posted the photo of her and her human. Physically, they are not alike. They are both wearing glasses, but he is taller and has longer dark hair. And yes, he is… well, he.
So what’s up with this? Am I a compulsive liar? Am I a gender bender, or gay, or a perv? I don’t think so.
Rocketgrrrl Needs You
As you probably know it is hard to find any statistical data about second life. Rocketgrrrl Trip is trying to shed some light on this world of ours. She wants to know two things:
- What can firms learn from user involvement in product innovation occurring in situ in a firm-hosted synthetic world?
- What are the processes by which innovators outside the firm obtain innovation-related resources and assistance?
Corporations Sux in Second Life
For a month or so now we're hearing how big corporations that came to second life cannot get their way in it. Now the Forbes reports that
avatars enjoy having sex and playing pranks instead of getting warm fuzzy feelings about real life brands.
They are kidding, right? This cannot be. Someone's actually surprised and disappointed that people enjoy sex (even virtual) more than being targets of bad marketing campaigns? And, they are not ashamed to show their stupidity in public?
Avatar’s Mother Tongue
As you probably concluded from all the missing articles and strange constructions of sentences, English is not my mother tongue. At least, it is not a mother tongue of human me.
Yesterday I had the rare opportunity to meet and talk to someone in my mother tongue. And… huh… it was really a surprise.
Forming of Second Life’s Society
It wouldn't be fair to say that the incriminated Daniel's post and Linden's behaviour in the periods of crises made nothing good. After all, they induced forming of second life's society. We all got used to jokes about king Philip and Lindens as royal family. Was it just a joke? Well no, it wasn't.
But now we see resident's forming groups, and more important, groups are uniting. For the sake of truth we cannot neglect the fact that this early political life is not without all the weaknesses of any early politics.
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