Doing my duty as event guy at New World Notes, I’ve been noticing that there are lots and lots of events being sponsored by a new Hare Krishna group in SL. Which has made me wonder, what are the limits of religious tolerance in Second Life?
Category: Virtual Worlds
Chat log from in-world Obama event today
Some folks asked for the chat log of the Obama in-world "appearance" today. So here it is, with some of the extraneous "lol" and side comments not included. I hope it’s helpful to someone.
Pics from Obama’s SL appearance today
US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama appeared in SL today on SoHo island, with the help of ForeFront Media… sort of. In reality, someone was puppeteering his avatar while an audio stream played his live webcast. I took some pics of his nicely designed avatar and some crowd shots. Enjoy.
Short video of Obama appearance in SL today
Click To Play An avatar of Barack Obama appeared in Second Life today (March 31) as part of his national webcast of a "living room" conversation with supporters. Nice looking avatar, and interesting to experience the stream with a bunch of other Americans and others from around the world. (Click here for more pics.) I…
wii + Second Life = mad sweet
I got a chance to play with the Gideon May’s wiimote controller hack for Second Life at the Metaverse Meetup last night in the East Village. I must admit, I squealled like a 12-year old girl while I was playing with it. According to 3PointD, over the last couple of days, Gideon hacked together a…
Trying on Adam n Eve’s “Hiro” asian skin
I read up in the cool men’s fashion blog Men’s Second Style about the new ethnic skins created by the folks at Adam and Eve (teleport SLURL). I bought the "Hiro" asian skin that I thought was close to my skin tone to see how it looks. I’m not interested in creating a photorealistic duplicate…
Obama supporters gathering on Second Life Capitol Hill sim this Saturday
Just got word of what sounds like one of the first Second Life rallies in support of a presidential candidate. According to a group notice I got from the Capitol Hill group, supporters of Barack Obama will gather on Saturday March 31 at 2:30pm PST at SL Capitol Hill (teleport SLURL) for a rally to…
Hippacus: teaching math through online gaming
Clickable Culture sent along the link to a new MMORPG called "Hippasus" where you apparently have to fight green-armed guys using only an abacus and a TI-36X scientific calculator. That’s right, your worst nightmare: an online game where you have to use your math skills to pwn your opponents. Seriously, this has the potential of…
Discussion today on politics in First and Second Life
Kei Moana of Clear Ink moderated a roundtable discussion today about presidential campaign politics in SL. The event happened, appropriately enough, in the chambers of SL Capitol Hill (teleport SLURL) from 11am-noon PDT. There was a spirited and respectful conversation among a small but diverse group of resident politicos about politicking in SL and their…
Virtual recreation of Space Mountain ride
Someone please please please build this in SL. Thank you. (Brought to you by the cool Space Mountain fansite "Space Station 77.") – Rik "Space Cadet 3rd Class" Riel