What is Second Life? Best fictional analogs are Stephenson’s Metaverse from “Snow Crash” or Vinge’s Otherverse from “True Names.”

What is Second Life?

Best fictional analogs are Stephenson’s Metaverse from “Snow Crash”

or Vinge’s Otherverse from “True Names.”

What happens when you give everyone powerful tools to shape their world?

A Waking Dream made Real……and Shared

3D modeling

Breathing Life into Objects with Scripting

property rights

In Second Life, residents own their creationsWhat does this mean?• Residents retain their Intellectual Property rights to their

creations• Residents may buy and sell L$ for real world $• Residents may license their creations back into the real world

Emotional Bandwidth

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Emotional Bandwidth

Use real-world social cues and proxemics

Create your visual identity

Animations and sounds add more depth

Video shared in a Community Space

Music shared in a Community Space

“Machinima” – www.bellsandspurs.com

Movies created in a Community Space

Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space

Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space

Conferences extended into a Virtual Community Space

“I’m still working on my slides.”

“Yeah…me too.”

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

“It took 65 years after the invention of the printing press for someone to decide that putting page numbers on books was a good idea! The essay took a century to be invented; thus it is quite likely that the enduring and serious forms of the new media have not been invented. We are still mired in the imitation of the old: paper, film, and tape.” – Alan Kay

Who will be the next Sergei Eisenstein?

Thank you

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John Lester (aka Pathfinder Linden)[email protected]