The challenge to New World Notes readers: Create a mixed reality photo portrait that contains your avatar and your real life self in the same frame, and send it to me.
Today's featured subject: CyFishy Traveler and her owner -- or at least her left foot.
"Yes, that is my foot next to the screen and that is, of course, the loving couple of CyFishy Traveler and Beginning Thursday on the screen," she tells me. Ms. Traveler's owner took the photo with her iPhone, from the desk she usually operates Second Life. If you look closely, you'll see a glimpse of her real world face -- "[T]he picture on the wall behind the containers of writing instruments is a tattered printout of a photograph someone took of me as I was reciting my poetry in front of a Basquiat painting in the High Museum of Art," she tells me, "during my previous life as a coffeehouse poet of some vague repute. (Around that time in my life, I was involved with someone who was working on creating art installations in VRML, so I've been exploring virtual worlds for longer than I realized, now that I think about it.)" More after the break:
"The in-world location is a place in Orelle that I came across during my attempt at 24 hours in Second Life. It has a rug with a lie-down-together pose, and a Mahjong table that I've taken to making use of now and then, since rezzing a copy (it's a widely available freebie) on my own land would consume the prim count in one go."
Want to send me your own Mixed Reality Portrait? Here's guidelines and suggestions on doing just that.
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