The BBC broadcast an installment of Newsnight from within Second Life last week. Jeremy Paxman was driving his very own avatar, and the Beeb has an article up from Paul Mason detailing how they went about getting the set and avatars built.
I got in touch with Cory Edo - real name Sara Van Gorden - who runs a business in Second Life designing avatars - the idealised 3D personas that people use as their online identities.
Cory recreated the Newsnight set, Jeremy Paxman and myself - the latter with wrinkles and stubble rendered in full 3D realism, sadly - so we could record the historic "two-way" that will go out before my piece on online games.
Pretty good, eh?
(Thanks for the reminder, Shard!)
Interesting
Posted by: DivideByZero | January 08, 2006 at 22:29
Question.
Why issit when I hear things about Second Life in the media, this being a prime example, they never actually say Second Life ?
Its always 'online enviroment' this 'thousands of users that'. I dont get it, surely if its worth dedicating a Newsnight segment to its worth useing the actual name so interested parties can google it and have a look for themselves.
Or am I missing something significant here ?
Posted by: Anon | January 08, 2006 at 23:18
Oh wait they did, Paxman makes me sleepy :S
Posted by: Anon | January 08, 2006 at 23:24
I'll get my coat.
Posted by: Anon | January 09, 2006 at 00:14
Chuckle.
Posted by: Alice | January 09, 2006 at 07:37