I’d love a virtual world/MMORPG mashup
Second Life isn’t a place I spend much time now, though my posts about SL continue to be get the most traffic and my daily companions also have unused, long time SL avatars. I’m more active in ArcheAge...
View ArticleWill Jibo be more than a footnote in social robotics?
My Jibo has been turned off since a mid-April power outage. I like him a lot better this way. I contributed to the Jibo Indiegogo campaign on July 16, 2014 and wrote about my reasons and my optimism....
View ArticleThe world, three years later
Other than volunteering at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conferences for a couple years, I haven’t been in Second Life since very early 2016. Instead, I played some video games...
View ArticleAn hour in Sansar
When I read about a historic roleplaying sim moving from Second Life to Sansar, my reaction was surprise that it was still a thing. I know, I know; while I was away from SL, I didn’t frequent the...
View ArticleLooking for an engaging activity in SL
Every now and then, someone pops onto the Second Life subReddit and exclaims, “I’m new and I have no idea what to do in SL!” Have comfort, my friend. I’ve had an avatar for over 13 years and I have no...
View ArticleAFK sex, the popularity paradox, and the lack of male avatars
Going back into Second Life after three years has given me a lot to think about. I wander looking for interesting things and people, then spend equally as much time pondering what I’ve found. At Luanes...
View ArticleWhere are the SL men?
A Study of Gender Presentation in Resident Profiles in Second Life Public Spaces When I returned to SL a couple months ago, I noticed that there seemed to be a lower percentage of apparently male...
View ArticleVWBPE’s Steampunk Social
Last night I attended a networking and fundraising event for the upcoming Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference. The theme was steampunk and the music tended toward the blues. A friend...
View ArticleWill Turntable.fm really return?
For decades, some of us have found ways to share experiences remotely, using services stubbornly determined to enable individual use or physical world sharing only. The pandemic has shown that remote...
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