Real Life Second Lifers
What if the real world was like second life. How would we walk and talk?
This will be scary/weird for those who haven't been on Second Life. But if you have already stumbled around Second Life, you might find it as hilarious as I did 
Molotov – last seen in California, now only found in Second Life
This is an interesting dramatized short movie series that I chanced upon through Shr's blog. I found the movie engaging/interesting enough to have it's own blog entry around it.
The rest of the episodes can be found here.
Second Talk – Integrated Skype in Second Life
So now you can wear virtual headsets in Second Life which integrate with Skype on your deskstop and talk to anyone who is within virtual hearing distance! All you need is Second Talk!
SecondLife: IBM, CircuitCity and Sears
So as IBM decides to get serious about SecondLife, they start building a Sears and CircuitCity. I paid a visit to CircuitCity and was very delighted at what i saw.
To the left is Sears, to the right is CircuitCity
It looks very cozy from the inside. Clicking on any product on display opens up the browser to display more information on it.
You can watch live streaming video on the television sets that are on display. You can also sit on the couch and watch a nice 40" flat panel on the wall. You can move the distance of the couch from the wall, to reflect the setting at your own home and the TV screen changes in size to recommend to you what you need for your home.
It's experimental. You can not yet just pick the object and buy it from within SecondLife. They are still collecting feedback.
I see it catching on soon. We won't make an overnight shift to the Matrix, but we seem to be getting somewhere there. A more hybrid one for now.
Second Life opens its source code
Second Life has decided to open up its source code to get the open source community to work on it and help rapidly expand and enhance it.
"There are lots of handicapped people using Second Life. It's one of the really inspiring things about it," Rosedale said. "There are a lot of ways of connecting people to their computers, not just mice and keyboards but gaze detection and neuromuscular stuff" that Linden Lab doesn't have the manpower to address, but he hopes outside programmers will.
Someone also could "hook up an exercise bike and fly around Second Life while exercising," he said, or write a program for accessing the world from a smart phone.
"All that becomes extremely easy to do," said Rosedale, who will speak tomorrow at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[via MSNBC]
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