Benutzer:S.ludwig/Second Life

Stichwortsammlung: Second Life

• bietet Distanz und man kann sich hinter seinem Avatar verstecken
• ermöglicht gleichzeitige Unterhaltungen mit mehreren Personen über grosse Entfernung

• ich bin abhängig von elektrischer Energie
• ich brauche einen Datenspeicher (PC oder Zentralrechner), auf dem meine persönlichen Daten gespeichert sind
• mein Lebensbereich ist zur Zeit noch begrenzt auf die virtuelle Realität

• Ich kann
  • sekundenschnell mit Hilfe von Teleport an jedes virtuelle Ziel reisen wann und wohin ich will
  • romantische Plätze besuchen oder meine eigene Idylle erschaffen
  • mein Aussehen selbst gestalten
  • mein Lebensalter selbst wählen ohne zu altern
  • Freunde und Gesprächspartner auf der ganzen Welt kennen lernen
  • mir die gewünschten Tages- oder Nachtzeiten selbst aussuchen
  • einfach mal ausspannen, träumen und first life vergessen

• ich werde
  • nicht krank und habe keine Schmerzen
  • nicht müde oder erschöpft
  • nicht hungrig oder durstig

• Freundschaften
  • sind oft nur von kurzer Dauer

Keyword Collection: Second Life

• SL allows people to live out their fantasies safely
• in second life people get involved. It is not "just" pixels
• maybe you have really close SL friendships and when the people quit playing they are just gone. You do not know who they are.
• some people
  • see SL as an extension of RL therefoe they give other people some kind of RL contact info in Profile, and add their e-mail address to First Life section
  • have FirstLife and SL completely separate
• a sim, island can die because the owner stops being active (no events, bad management, lack of money), which sometimes cost a lot of energy
• many people put a lot of effort into SL
• if you do not want to see something...do not go there

• sl provides
  • distance, you can hide behind an avatar
  • synchronous multi-person conversations at distance
  • possibility to try out ideas which would not be possible in the real world
• sl is
  • safe, no real face and identity
  • the illusion of perfection
  • social interaction
  • a window to a diverse array of cultural expression
  • an extension of RL... a way to socialize in ways I could not afford to do in RL or that I would not otherwise have time to do
  • like licking ice-cream through glass (?)
  • an emotional investment if you take it seriously, understanding that behind every avatar is a person

• in sl
  • visuals and sense of reality give confidence
  • groups appear to form more quickly than they do in real life
  • groups have the facility to put forward and vote on proposals
  • there are no real physical attacks
  • we can communicate as equals with no attention to race, class, looks, nationality, disability, age, etc
  • people (Avatars) often disappear or change their identity (new Avatar-name and new outfit)
  • people can continue living in sl-cyberspace after first-life-death
  • you can chat, explore or go shopping
  • there is a lack of the ability to touch, to smell things
  • you have beside only text, also an avatar that you can make as you like, to express your entity
  • there are
    • funerals
    • weddings
    • pregnancies and childbirth

• in sl you can
  • create, script and interact with virtual objects as an individual or as a group
  • make perfect beauty without mistakes
  • make snapshots (see flickr)
  • make movies (see YouTube)
  • hear music tracks
  • create virtual buildings, plants, animals, landscapes
  • create gestures and animotions by scripting
  • practice virtual sex = safe sex
  • control the weather,
  • live for ever
  • make things out of nothing
  • be any one or any thing and explore all corners

• in the future
  • we will live in both worlds
    • second life as our future virtual world
    • and in the „real“ world
  • there will be a human/brain - machine interface
  • there will be development of holography in sl to show 3D pictures
  • the webcam can project the real face on the avatar
  • imagination together with physical stimulation will be realized

Questions

1. What limitations do you encounter in Second Life?

2. What will be the future for Second Life?

3. Who are you - your Avatar in secondlife or your real biological person?

4. Where do you live - somewhere in secondlife or in so called real life?

5. Where do you prefer to live?

6. Is it important for you - who is behind the avatar

6.1 Gender - the same gender as the avatar

6.2 Age - how old is the human behind the avatar

7. What type of place in secondlife do you call HOME? Or do you need one?

Links:

• http://www.schome.ac.uk/wiki/Main_Page