Mixed-Reality Party In DC and Second Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @03:16AM 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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maybe so by revery · 2006-02-15 03:38 · Score: 4, Insightful

This is just conceptually a wierd idea to me.

Maybe so, but your kids will love it.
The New Reality by airship · 2006-02-15 03:55 · 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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