Ok, it just keeps getting more, more surreal. Online media maven Eric Rice recently organized a virtual world BarCamp at his Hipcast Conference & Expo Center in the popular 3D online world Second Life. Here’s Eric’s wrap-up report on the event.
Prior to the event, Brian Oberkirch was wondering if there would be Barcamp t-shirts available for Second Life avatars. What’s next, a SuperHappySecondLife with virtual Red Bull?
Previous Second Life and real life (RL) cross-over events have included book discussions by Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig, as well as Burning Life, a Second Life tribute to Burning Man.
UPDATE: Robert Scoble discovered some more images of BarCamp Second Life captured by Bill Futreal.
Related Posts:
- BarCamp LA and BarCamp San Diego
- BarCampBlock, BarCamp Returns To Its Roots
- BarCamp San Francisco Photos
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When playing FarCry (or Abashera or some similar 3Dish game), watching the waves hit the beach, thinking that behind me no waves were rendered, only those I currently were watching, because that would be a waste of processor juice – I realized that this is very similar to the quantum physicists claim that some particles behave in a certain manner just because we are watching them. Spooky. This is becoming rather boring, where do I download the update patch? What, I already got it – vine? OK.
Well as the motherly person running around making sure things were getting done, I was so bummed that we *didn’t* have Barcamp t-shirts. And then, my wife (my Real Life Wife heh) volunteered to do a presentation on file formats, templates and textures and her session was gettinge everyone (newbies as well) to MAKE THEIR OWN.
And on another note, well, I do have a couple Red Bull machines (which is a copyright violation, sure, but look at the workflow: celebrating the brand!), so if you show up, I’ll kick down for SuperHappyAvCamp. ;-)
does second life cost any money to play?