9/1/2023 0 Comments Second life avatar![]() I joined Second Life (as Jen-Luc Piquant) a couple of years ago when my spouse – whose dashing avatar is named Seamus Tomorrow – gave a virtual physics lecture as part of the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), a nonprofit group that held public events in Second Life until the program ended earlier this year. The richness of our virtual experience depends on our establishing a strong bond with our avatar. Dig a little deeper into the human psychology of self-representation, and avatars are just a technology-enabled extension of the self. True, there might be the faint whiff of narcissism hovering about such activity, but only at the most superficial level. Happily, several seem to be sufficiently intrigued by the notion to do so.Īnd why not? It's just a more elaborate version of the little Jen-Luc Piquant mood avatars that I use at the opening of each post. I've amassed quite the short list of impressive, articulate potential guests - assuming they're willing to build an avatar. My gig will be the second Wednesday of every month, starting October 10, and I hope you'll join us -if not in Second Life itself, at least via BlogTalkRadio. And we certainly hope to grow a wider audience, both within Second Life for the "live" events, and via the audio available via BlogTalkRadio: there are some terrific discussions archived at the VSS site, and even more to come. But those who do use it regularly are diehard fans. Despite boasting some 15 million users, Second Life has never quite achieved the same mainstream market penetration as, say, World of Warcraft and many other MMOs, perhaps because the user interface is, frankly, kind of awkward and clumsy (and the rendering program can be maddeningly slow to load). ![]() In fact, I've signed on to host my own monthly hour-long discussions for VSS, joining Tom and the other VSS host, MSNBC's Alan Boyle. Listen to internet radio with Virtually Speaking Science on Blog Talk Radio
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