{"id":63,"date":"2005-03-18T02:03:52","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=63"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:33:16","slug":"second-look-at-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"A Second Look at Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/pic\/2nd_life.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot from Second Life\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nSince this blog only went &#8220;live&#8221; yesterday (I&#8217;d disabled it&#8217;s pingback features until then) I was surprised to see someone outside my small circle of mostly disinterested acquaintances had stopped in to visit. Curious to know who, I paid <a href=\"http:\/\/setpoint.typepad.com\/\">Setpoint Originator<\/a> a visit. It appears we have some things in common. More importantly, I noticed the two previous entries concerned <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/?a=10d6623d164d419ba049f169642f22dd\">Second Life<\/a>, and so decided to pay a long overdue visit to its homepage and some other related sites. The one that <em>really<\/em> struck me was this <a href=\"http:\/\/crystaltips.typepad.com\/wonderland\/2005\/03\/cory_o_on_secon.html\">blog entry<\/a> over on <a href=\"http:\/\/crystaltips.typepad.com\/wonderland\/\">Wonderland<\/a>. The &#8220;Virtual Hallucinations&#8221; example reinforces <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=51\">my previous thoughts<\/a> on Molyneux&#8217;s &#8220;The Room&#8221; experiment in that there are surprising (and perhaps startling) ways to use this technology, and makes me wonder if something similar couldn&#8217;t be coded into SL&#8230; perhaps the ability to create enclosed environments wherein more dramatic experimentation can take place. Just a thought. But of actually greater interest to me now are some of the virtual economic and social issues transpiring there. Worth a third look&#8230;tomorrow after a good night&#8217;s rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this blog only went &#8220;live&#8221; yesterday (I&#8217;d disabled it&#8217;s pingback features until then) I was surprised to see someone outside my small circle of mostly disinterested acquaintances had stopped in to visit. Curious to know who, I paid Setpoint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[32,106,116],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-industrial-design","tag-metaverse","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}