I’ve been meaning to write about mesh avatars for a while. But first, I needed to pin down what exactly it is that troubles me about mesh avatars. Of course it could just be familiarity – I accept the faults in the standard avatar as I no longer really see them, whereas mesh is new […]
Category: Virtual Life & Identity
Steampunk at Babbage
Dark and industrial in a steampunk way, New Babbage is an impressive area covering ten sims. It is certainly atmospheric, with towers, bridges, canals and railways half concealed in the gloom. Steampunk is a view of what Victorian England might have become, extrapolating old types of technology forward in time. It has been criticised for […]
Two Friends
A simple scene of quiet conversation. Two friends on a bench in Second Life while their real life bodies sit half way around world from each other. Here their minds meet in conversation in a way that only can be achieved through re-embodiment in a virtual world, by sharing the same space, of seeing and […]