[Sigia-l] Second Life

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mike Brown
> Sent: 31 January 2007 08:16
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Second Life
> 
> > Has anyone done anything
> > for/on Second Life? Will it affect my work? What am I 
> supposed to do 
> > with this thing?
> 
> Funnily enough, was at a talk today by Matt Biddulph 
> <http://www.hackdiary.com/>. He's interested in:
> "possibilities offered by bringing external data into virtual 
> environments like Second Life. This data might come from the 
> web, but it could also come from the real world - from 
> physical sensors and interfaces."
> 
> He mentioned this:
> <http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000101.html>
> 
> and here:
> <http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000098.html>
> 4 nanometre slices of a cell, photographed and then 
> reconstructed into a 3D model at Second Life.
> 

On a more general level, Shirky posted on this a couple of days ago too:

http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/01/29/second_life_games_and_virtua
l_worlds.php

Not actually read it though yet..

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