I am not in the mood to tell you another "boy meets a girl in second life" story. You know how it goes. Skip the dancing and the intellectual foreplay, sooner or later, they will look for a bit of fun in the poseballs. One teleport and a couple of minutes later two of them are running through animations, exchanging sweet words and naughty thoughts…

You know that most of the men have that latent fear, something that has a name related to praying mantis, the naughty insect whose female cut off male's head after mating. And she eat him then. For some unknown link between humans and mantises there is that fear about her going very evil in the moment when he is weak and not ready to fight and defend himself. It happens in the world of insects. It frightens humans. Well, it can happen in metaverse, too. Actually, it can be much worse than you think. Read more »

As we could hear in Reuter's interview (thanks to Hiro Pendragon), Mitch Kapor is working on a prototype of 3D camera. Idea is to make a camera that will add an infrared generated layer of data, so for each pixel it also streams the distance from the camera. Then, with a bit of software, system can trace what your human body is doing and your avatar can follow your body language, imitate your face expressions, look where your human looks and generally be much better connected to you.

Read more »

I have promised months ago, in comments on my noobhood memories, to share with you a bit of "my short, quite unsuccesfull but enlinghtning dancer/escort career". So, to correct the title of this post, I wasn't teen but noob, and I wasn't a whore but an escort. Never mind that both are names for prostitutes, second life population feels lower level of guilt when having cybersex for money is called escorting. Somehow I feel it is more about guilt of the clients, but that's beside the point here. So… me…. just a couple of weeks old… in desperate need of money.

Read more »

Recently Gwyneth Llewelyn was analyzing what is the magic factor that makes second life so special. It is hard to put all the great things she said into one quote but I need one to start this writing

As pioneers of a new all-encompassing environment that is just now being created, it’s hard to step out and look at what we’ve accomplished. It doesn’t seem much. However, this is what the pioneers of mobile phones and emails have also felt when they started to incorporate these tools in their everyday routine — both for pleasure and for work — and didn’t feel overly “special” about it.

I've spent last two or three nights in an endless scripting adventure. For unknown reasons, and like I had nothing more pleasurable to do, I wanted to master those two toys: DCS and Sensations. For those who is not familiar with them, though I doubt we have such people here, DCS stands for Dynamic Combat System. It counts how strong you are and how many more bullets you can survive in sims where shooting is something you count on. It does some other nice things but that's beside the point. Sensations also deals with weapons, but it counts something very different, i.e. how close to orgasm you are, how painful is your master's new whip and overall hornyness of your being. As you can see, one system is for violence, other is for love, though borders are more than blurry in this case. Actually, both are doing the same thing. Both are trying to put something in numbers.

Read more »