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Mixed-Reality Party In DC and Second Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the strange-ideas-and-stranger-places dept.

Jerry23 writes "This Saturday The Happening will bring Second Life to first life. The Electric Sheep Company, a new metaverse developer, has virtually recreated R&B Coffee in Washington DC for use in a mixed-reality party and benefit for the DC art scene and several local nonprofits. Real people will mingle with avatars via realtime video projections in the real and virtual R&B spaces, and MAKE Magazine's Phillip Torrone will be on-hand showing off his homemade Virtual Reality headsets and gloves. The whole world is invited to attend in DC or Second Life, whichever's closer for you." This is just conceptually a weird idea to me.

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  1. maybe so by revery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just conceptually a wierd idea to me.

    Maybe so, but your kids will love it.

    1. Re:maybe so by saltydogdesign · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'd rather that they have a life, not a make-believe one.

      What could be more real than what your senses tell you is real? To paraphrase Videodrome, the computer screen is the retina of the mind's eye.
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  2. The New Reality by airship · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This may be weird now, but get used to it. The future is the virtual overlaid on the real, and vice-versa. The lines are blurring. In twenty years, maybe even ten, it will be considered quaint and old-fashioned to make a distinction between the two.

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  3. Re:Uhhh, What?? by jandrese · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google is your friend: R&B Coffee.

    Seriously, it's like people expect Slashdot articles to only cover what they already know. Heaven forbid the click on a link and be horribly exposed to new information.

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