Real 2nd Life: Italian developers convert SL into virtual reality cave

The ultimate in mixed reality: a Second Life where all the images are displayed before you on a giant screen in 1:1 proportion.  This is Real 2nd Life, created by a university lab in Milan in partnership with an Italian company specializing in RFID.  A computer runs a recompiled SL client and shoots the image through four high resolution digital projectors.  The user wears filtered 3D glasses, to translate the layered images.  David Orban has the full revolutionary VR geekery on this blog; more info (in Italian) at the company site. (Hat tip: Ugotrade.)

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[Opensource Obscure]

Amazing! :)

Also, I'd like to note how much value David Orban is adding to Second Life by letting hundreds of italian residents use his islands (Vulcano and Lipari; more are coming) for free, urging us to be creative, to cooperate, to live together and share common resources, and to break rules - not establish new ones.

You can find a pretty complete description (in english) about the social experimentation running on Vulcano at the end of this UgoTrade article:
Interview with David Orban on Vulcano: Genetic Algorithms and Wisdom of Crowds

Official website (italian): vulca.no

Some photos/videos/slides about things made on Vulcano:
Photo by Opensource Obscure
Photo by Vision Raymaker
Kastal Karas' blog
Local Government Study Group (may 2007)