June 11th, 2007 by Heywood
“Imagine taking an avatar and walking around a house, painting the walls dynamically and furnishing it with products from Pottery Barn or Ikea. There’ll be a point when a 3-D Internet solves problems in your real world.”
Gosh. If the 3-D Internet was going to solve my problems in the real world, couldn’t it do something other than help me buy futons? How about helping out with my credit card debt, or my cellulite? I’m just saying.
* Folks, I’m mocking myself here. Half my furniture is from Pottery Barn.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
The thing they don’t mention about Second Life, The Sims, etc. – it also allows sociopaths to solve their problems: like how to act-out fantasies of robbery, stalking, murder, etc. in a virtual world with little repercussions. Is that a good thing?
June 12th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I guess this is time for a shameless plug:
Over the past 6 months I’ve been organizing a conference to be held this Friday (6/15) entitled The Business and Economics of Second Life and Virtual Worlds. What really makes this event cool is that we’re actually having part of the conference in Second Life. If anyone’s interested in attending virtually, follow the above link and send an email to my work account; I’ll comp you for the event.