As part of my job, i need to become a Second Life expert in a week or so.
So this morning, while being stuck at home by a terrible and sudden back ache that stripped me of my will to live, I ventured again in the "metaverse".
In the ten times or so I've logged in to Second Life, my "avatar" went through many reincarnations: born as a female, it was later converted to male.
At first I wanted to dress like a guru of sorts, something like a jesus figure. Sandals weren't a problem, since it's what you get as a standard. Unfortunately I don't know how to make a jesus dress in second life (it's not easy and you need money apparently). So it ended up like a long haired dwarf, wearing a t-shirt made of the american flag (one of the few free textures available).
For today, i decided to make myself a shirt, the '90s nirvana kind! Red plaid!
Enough for the dressing part, I seem to start to see the point of this second life thing. The recent addition of voice chat is what makes it useful for me. In the end, we have been searching for live meeting software for years. Considering you can stream audio, video and build (somehow) your conference center, it really starts to make sense.
So there was screens everywhere with the slides, the speakers used their avatars to speak, and all the people around were listening. It was funny to see the "guy" next to me fall asleep just like in normal conferences (its status went from online to "away").
Then, someone was streaming what his characted saw over the internet, and that was recorded, and it will stay as meeting minutes. Of course, i had to fly and dance in front of the camera, just being stupid.
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