Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (you can even subscribe via email!). Thanks for visiting!In considering the mechanics of actually writing about my project, one of the early decisions I made was to engage in autoethnographic writing.
For the uninitiated, autoethnographic writing is, according to wikipedia,
“personal narrative [...]

I’ve created a wiki to manage my research project, particularly the outputs.
You are very welcome to pop along and add your ten cents’ worth as you see fit, however be aware that you can only add ‘thread comments’, not edit or create actual pages.
I’m afraid that such powers must rest with select members of the [...]

Lee Laperriere relaxes and reclines, watching another gorgeous sunrise from his new home.
Situated on a man-made island with nothing but a glorious view of the sea, and with a lovely little beach hut and a couple of recliner chairs, our hero can escape the hurly-burly of business, academic and family life and find solace, [...]

I don’t usually post my FIR reports here, but since this whole report is about Second Life and 3D collaborative virtual environments (aka CVEs) I figure it’s as good a place as any to post it.
In this week’s report:
A rather futuristic thought piece on Second Life or other 3D Collaborative Virtual Worlds and our existing [...]

Just musing further on the MetaVerse Roadmap, I am thinking about whether (or when) the GPS shadow of the real-world ‘owner’ can translate to context-sensitive advertising in-world.
For example, I may be physically situated in Adelaide but travelling through ‘Barcelona’ in Second Life. If there are some billboard or HUD-based advertising tags or prims that [...]

It had to happen. Rather than paying ’sitters’ L$5/hr to camp out at your place to make it look busy, you can now buy avatars that sit there for free.
Okay, perhaps that’s slightly confusing. But for L$477 you can purchase five different male avatars — clerk, salesman, guard, visitor, manager — and have them [...]

On page eight of the MVR Overview [pdf] there is a para above an image that serves as a useful ‘jumping off point’ for some observations now that I am re-reading the document with far more learned eyes.
“Many of today’s “netizens” use 2D personal web pages and home pages in MySpace, and in Korea, 2.5D [...]

Not the grid of ‘Google Grid’ fame, nor the Grid of Second Life fame, but The Grid at Cern.
Apparently, the Cern version of online connectivity could allow 10Gbps performance — which would be nice because I’m trying to build a new office for myself today in Second Life and the lag is horrendous!
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