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Joel Greenberg on Second Life

Joel Greenberg took a few memebers of Bootstrap Austin's Web Subgroup on a tour of Second Life last night. In his role
GSD&M's Senior Planner focused on emerging technologies, Joel's set up an "Idea City" island in SL. Several cool features, including a cannon that'll shoot your avatar into the air with a parachute. Joel showed us around several sites - one of the most interesting uses of the system was an installation that simulates the schizophrenic's experience of the world, with visual and aural virtual hallucinations based on actual descriptions of schizophrenic perception. Joel said that families of schizophrenics could go there to get a better sense of a phenomenon they deal with every day but can't see. I learned a lot more about Second Life navigation, which isn't always easy; now if I only had more hours to spend....

Below: Jonl Trumbo at Idea City

jon posted this at 9:21 AM
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