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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DC by Computeradam · 2006-02-15 03:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I hope its better then the virtualboy from nintendo.. (Heh 1st one to post!)
It'd be more interesting... by daranz · 2006-02-15 03:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It would be more interesting if it was WoW, or something similar. Instead of the sole purpose being socializing, you could actually get to bash some skulls in with an axe... virtually, and for real.

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