Anyone else active in Second Life from psychonaut?
- Auteur de la discussion HeartCore
- Date de début
misery a dit:one time I wanted to try this. as soon as I realised that I need a credit-card I buried my plans
say, is it worth it? in the end it's just a 3D-chatroom, or isn't it?
I never had a credit cardand I don't need one to explore Second Life or even develop there. As a visitor/explorer, a free account plus access to the endless freebies in skins/clothes/gadgets can keep you busy without ever spending a dollar. To develop in SL, you would need to rent land so then you would need to transfer some money there but I'm doing that personally via paypal without a problem. But then again, thats really only needed if you develop there.
3D-chatroom is a big understatement in my opinion, the best description I've ever found was the matrix type vr described in the novel Snowcrash (which I recently found out, was actually the basis of realizing Second Life).
I see it as a great opportunity in many ways, it's a new art platform with many new possibilities that have never been possible before (anyone familiar with Terence Mckenna's Octopus rap, that is actually possible there
). There is much depth and also much superficiality, as with any new medium, the porn industry is one of the first to jump on it. The cool thing about Second Life though is that detailed, 3D tantra workshops can be given in the house next to Johnny the Wanker watching porn. It's much more a 'real' world, as opposed to a chatroom 
Another advantage I see is that the technology developed there in combination with the super fast evolving consumer hardware, will make it so that it will be possible to re-create our avatars from the real world, into there. Complete with little camera's which read and translate your body language to the simulator. This again, holds of course great promises for mentioned porn industry but on the other hand, also board meetings from international corporations (to give one example), could at some point be held in spaces like this, directly incluencing the frequency and need of a lot of business air traffic, one of our big polluters.
Also Terence "Living in the imagination", makes a lot of sense in that space, being it a crude version maybe. My own experience in Second Life, after spending some time in learning the tools, is that the only limit there, is your imagination.
Love/peace
HC
Edit:
Learning to grow from 'the pros' in a virtual world
