Yesterday afternoon I attended the ‘IBM UK Second Life Summit in Hursley’. It was in Hursley both in real life and in secondlife.
I’ve dabbled a bit in secondlife over the past few months, particularly because of all of the talk about it on eightbar. It was really interesting to see what IBM has done so far in the area of virtual worlds, what the immediate short-term plans are (impressed) and whay might happen in the slightly longer term (more impressed).
In secondlife I’m ‘dizley Abernathy’, a not very well dressed, pretty boring looking avatar (all because I’m cheap and not great at creating my own clothes yet)* yet to be honest I don’t see myself really using that identity any more that I use davidillsley@gmail.com (which is to say not much). I enjoy the immersive nature of secondlife but to me it’s more of a tool. I want to be me (not necessarily have an avatar that looks like me) and use the space to enrich my interactions with other people. I suppose there is an important privacy issue which is dodged by the second name thing but I’m sure there must be a way to deal with that.
I think I’ll spend a little more time in secondlife now, exploring places and the technology, seeing where it could take us.
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