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Hanging with Paul/Hiro in Second Life and Real Life

Posted on May 25, 2006 by

Tonight I managed to catch most of a special Future Salon discussion and machinima movie viewing in Second Life featuring Paul Marino, head of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, founder of Ill Clan Productions and most importantly my roommate. 
Paul in real life
In typical SL mind-bending fashion, I was sitting in the living room of our apartment while Paul sat a few feet away from me with his headset on and tapping away on his laptop.  Meanwhile, both of our avatars (Rik Riel and Hiro Quasimodo respectively) were in Second Life at the Future Salon discussion.
Paul in Second Life
That’s Paul/Hiro in the black jacket in the middle here.

Paul would speak into his headset and 4 seconds later I would hear him in-world, chatting with others on the panel.  It was all quite strange and amusing. 

1 thought on “Hanging with Paul/Hiro in Second Life and Real Life”

  1. Pathfinder Linden says:
    May 26, 2006 at 7:24 am

    Very cool. Lag like that is very surreal. Faster nets and processeing power will help, but we really need to lick that speed of light problem…

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