Image via Wikipedia Virtual Reality Cannot Yet Replace Real Life Presence I’ve seen some discussions on various mailing lists about attempts to virtualize conferences as a way to save money for participants, given outrageous travel costs these days. Believe me, as an avid conference-goer, I and my wallet couldn’t agree more about travel costs. However,
Could you use an extra $45,000 per week? If so, you might want to consider having a subscription object written for you in Second Life. A “bonus” called an allowance is issued in Second Life every week to residents. It’s L$50, or roughly US$0.18 per avatar. 18 cents doesn’t sound like much, but hire a
Hat tip to Mitch Joel and CC Chapman for this wonder. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA[/youtube]
Another fantastic seminar with master teacher Stephen K. Hayes has come to an end, and this one is even harder to put into words. Meditations, martial arts, and mind science all blended together for an eye-opening weekend. A few takeaways that I can put into words come to mind… Second Life. Was there Second Life
I was sailing around the SLuniverse this evening, and found myself in the midst of a HUGE build. Someone is constructing a Nova class starship inside of Second Life – complete with blueprints, floorplans, etc. The attention to detail is AMAZING. Take a look: With builds this high quality, machinema inside of SL is a
I had an interesting thought today while attending Coffee with Crayon. If you haven’t gotten it already, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander. It’s a fantastic book, nearly legendary in some circles. It is to architecture what Gavin de Becker’s Gift of Fear is to
