Noah Powell's Second Life: Experiencing Live People in Second Life!

As I figure my way through Second Life, I discover the possibilities of talking to real people and see what they do in this virtual. We first visited an artist talk that I found to be very unusual but exciting. We visited an art gallery set up by a Stanford University professor that featured many different projects. He gave a speech on all of his work which ranged mainly in recreating the experience in Second Life. There were pictures all over the walls that showed an installment of a hotel that the artist rendered into a project. It dealt with the hotel being filled with dummies and having people go through the experience. He took all of his notes and recreated what that might of looked like in Second Life using camera controls to get around his subjects and actors. Very weird stuff but very cool at the same time.

We had another meeting with a guru at Second Life who brought us to a game show type of place. There she asked us questions where we won real money! She wanted to express how important the internet age really is. We talked about how there is a lot of CGI movies being made in virtual realities such as video games and second life. They have become so popular now that South Park on Comedy Central took this idea and created an episode using the World of Warcraft video game, naming the episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft." One of my favorite episodes in fact, so I know it is a successful medium. Other renditions of this include the popular series "Red vs. Blue" that uses Microsoft's Xbox's Halo video game characters. I also answered a question correct that won me some money. I immediately answered the question of how many Youtube videos are watched in one day. I knew it was 2 Billion.