Colwyn
08-21-2006, 11:45 AM
Your Second Life is Ready on Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/7ba1af8f3812d010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html)
The final step for SL is what residents call “mixed world” events: gatherings that take place simultaneously in SL and in the real world. At a conference earlier this year, Linden Lab threw a party at which attendees sipped beer and chatted next to a giant-screen projection of the SL version of the gathering, and a webcam streamed an image of the real party into SL. When people waved at the webcam, avatars saw it and waved back. People chatted across worlds, with small social groups forming around keyboards. There was a sense of immediacy in the communication—the screen on the wall was just another room into which the party had spilled over.
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The final step for SL is what residents call “mixed world” events: gatherings that take place simultaneously in SL and in the real world. At a conference earlier this year, Linden Lab threw a party at which attendees sipped beer and chatted next to a giant-screen projection of the SL version of the gathering, and a webcam streamed an image of the real party into SL. When people waved at the webcam, avatars saw it and waved back. People chatted across worlds, with small social groups forming around keyboards. There was a sense of immediacy in the communication—the screen on the wall was just another room into which the party had spilled over.
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