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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

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EI Consulting

How backward! Real-to-Virtual is evolving to a short story - Real-to-Virtual-to-Real is more convincing >

Steven Hawking points out that Virtual Reality (Second Life, Opensim) failed, check 28:00

Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future - Virtual World 1 of 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfBoiCbWbt8

Pussycat Catnap

RUConsultingForSEOSpam seems to have left random characters in a comment above me.

But I did leave a long comment on the video. Probably too long for the youtube attention spam.

I should have just said "Lol you suxxors, SL rulez noob"...

But instead I offered up a list of things one could do that were not "reacting to the weird"...

2014

of course, another video of a crap default avi, with junk default clothes, with 2003 default crap walk animation. Video taken on some noob sim, with a crap looking store, with extremely dated items. Do these people ever get off of noob island and actually find a nicely done sim, or some of the great mesh designed stores? nooo, just another video perpetuating that SL looks like crap.

Marsha Warwillow

Very funny video in my opinion. People always say "Second Life" is not a game it's a social platform. But yet, gamers are interested in Second Life. People should look at this as an opportunity to figure out how to make SL interesting for gamers. I am an old gamer and also thought SL would have gaming in it but soon fell for the creative functionality it offers. After all this time, socializing is not first on the list for me of why I like SL.

EI Consulting

@Pussy Stephen Hawking takes your complaint about the valid video content... candy wrapping complaints about spam are false amd are not relevant.

melponeme_k

@Marsha Warwillow

"People should look at this as an opportunity to figure out how to make SL interesting for gamers."

They already are interested in SL. But the reason why they feel the need to revile it is because SL requires more than just raid armor to be elite. Plus elite status is not just what you wear in SL. SL has a lot of hurdles to jump. First is the UI which is on par with learning the US in Eve Online. The next is learning how to buy and set up a home. Then you need to create a good looking avatar. Sure you can buy one, but the real props come from making your own shape. Then you have to make connections, join groups, take part in and create activities. Then super elite status comes from actually creating sale items that other SL fans will buy.

You can imagine the frustration most of these gamers experience when they discover they don't have the skillz to make it past the UI. A great many of them can't hold regular conversations or they just don't want to.

What they really want is the service shown in that old film Logan's run called The Circuit. Or known today as group finder or raid finder.

http://youtu.be/OMlHZNMH5KA

Fred

I did a youtube search for second life, its a shame the really good machima stuff is so far down. its mostly griefer clips and a avatar giving birth to a prim baby up front.

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