Brian's World

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Yay to Grace Buford (Cylindrian Rutabaga inSL) for getting featured on CNN…. and Yay to me for having CNN use a bunch of my in-world video clips from Second Life in the segment!

Corey and I created a Christmas Display in the virtual world of Second Life. Video is below:

Hi Res version can be downloaded here.

Check out Rez in the virtual world of Second Life. Very nicely done environmental landscape project!

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Full Version can be viewed/downloaded here.

Full Version can be viewed/downloaded here.

On April 17, 2008 some residents of the virtual world of Second Life™ (SL) put together a Day of Remembrance to celebrate the lives of their friends in the virtual world who had died in real life.  The event was very well organized and seemed to be well attended by a few thousand people that passed in and out of the regions throughout the day.  There were a number of live performers and DJs that utilized the ability to stream audio into the virutal world to entertain the crowds that gathered. In the early morning I had the pleasure of dropping in on a group of live musicians located somewhere in Asia. Various DJs played music throughout the day and several other live musicians and performers shared their amazing talents with the many folks around the real world who chose to come together in a virtual world to enjoy these events.

I know that some people see virtual worlds as “just a game” or view them as “not real” but to many they are a place where they can interact with other real people and build real friendships, business collaborations and all kinds of relationships.  Do we view sites like Amazon.com as stores that are “not real” just because they’re made of bits instead of bricks and mortar?  It is unfortunate that much of the mainstream press often prefers to focus on the seedier parts of SL, including sex and “marginal activity” when in fact I rarely see this kind of thing going on out in the open in my virtual travels.   Thats not to say these things don’t happen in SL – it happens there just like the real world but it certainly doesn’t seem to be the predominant thing that the mainstream press makes it out to be. I think the Remembrance Day event showed the humanity and the real power of the technology to bring people together.

In any event, Corey and I decided to create a small video to document the Remembrance Day event.  There are both a low-res/quality Youtube version and a higher quality quicktime version below. Hope you enjoy it!

Remembrance Day Video Hires (Quicktime hi-res)