You'll likely need to wear your headphones to hear it, but on a recent visit to my office in Waterhead in SL, I noticed the location was starting to sound really lovely. Not just due to my artificial tide, but recently a neighbor added one of those lonely pier bells, while another had installed a clocktower chime. So lovely, in fact, when I went back to RL work, I kept the virtual world running in the background, so I could keep hearing that soothing ambience. Most locations in Second Life are pretty scant on atmospheric audio, so I'm lucky to have this for my own location.
What are your favorite virtual world spots for ambient sound? Post in Comments so we can give a listen.
Oh, and about my shrine to Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash:
It's been in Second Life for almost 15 years, an is an official virtual object d'art:
[T]he SL edition was created with the approval of Stephenson himself, then brought in-world by Fizik Baskerville of UK virtual world branding company Rivers Run Red, working with Penguin, Stephenson's publisher.
"We have only two hundred of them," Baskerville tells me, after offering an advance peek at the SL edition Snowcrash. "One is going in the Welcome Area. The others will be 'lottery' picks for discerning communities."
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