Bernadette Daly Swanson is presenting her experience in Second Life. She states that she doesn’t expect to jump in, but in the years to come a 3-D web will certainly become a reality. So to gain a little experience is really useful. However she hasn’t convinced her superiors yet on the usefulness of these experiences.
She quotes the 2007 horizon reports which predicts that by 2011 80% of us will be using virtual worlds. She shows us the SL version of the Public Library of Amsterdam.
A congressional hearing that were streamed to SL concentrated very much on negative aspects of Second Life. Since SL is a mirror world, negative aspect a bound to be around. She likes to stress the positive aspects.
She goes on to demonstrate SL live and meets Namro (aka as Guus) and Patrick (aka…) who are in the audience and logged in Second Life as well.
Rep of poets alexandre Pushkin?
Hi there,
actually the comment should read “She states that she doesn’t expect everyone to jump in…”
due to access to appropriate hardware and bandwitdh for many users…
but I have been in SL for 18 months and think it’s well worth exploring it early. Thanks, Ben
Hi,
I have been using Second Life for a long time now, actually that should read, been trying to use Second Life…
I have had an interesting module (Educational Informatics) in which we were meant to include the concept of SL into a new conceptual module that we had to design. Although the theory of Second Life is great, and the possibilities seemingly endless, once you start exploring the actual environment and it’s real possibilities, you quickly discover there are massive limitations. The most telling clues are with the multinationals that tried to create a presence, Intel for example has invested a lot in SL. But when they try/tried to run conferences in SL they quickly discovered that working with more than five people at the same time in the same area is cumbersome, add multimedia feeds and it is impossible. Not good if you try to get hundreds of people in one area! There are various examples on this, if you want I can get you a number of articles (scientific and non-scientific) that describe problems with SL that are being ignored by the ‘hype’.