Comments on: Shopping in Second Life: How Realistic Can You Be?

By: Madame Maracas

Madame Maracas — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:10:43 +0000

The fact that the noob had all his textures rezzed is the first thing, and neither viddy showed much lag. All the other points mentioned above are apt as well.

Ads are ads. Most of us don’t go drifting IRL in our cars on deserted desert switchbacks either.

By: Dale Innis

Dale Innis — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:23:22 +0000

Wahahaha! Gawd I hate lowest-common-denominator marketing. I’m sure they’re trying to convey the (true) impression that you can dress all sorts of ways, you can be a shiny robot, etc, etc; unfortunately the actual images they use to do with aren’t representative of what actually happens in SL.

(”Note: to actually try on all of these outfits, you would have to buy them all first. And clothing changes are much much slower. And you usually end up with private bits showing at least once during the process.”)

I’m also amused by the “A Place to Love” sequence, which makes it clear that SL is a place to love… prim animals.

(The second one was fun; but I was hoping to see him wearing a box on his hand…)

By: John Lopez

John Lopez — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:59:00 +0000

If only SL was anywhere near as slick as the top video depicts. Frankly it verges into false advertising territory… instant outfit changes, no rez/texture errors and vehicles that work in something other than “stutter stop”? Sign me up for *that* world.

By: chaddington boomhauer

chaddington boomhauer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:12:48 +0000

Am I doing something wrong? Shopping the last few days everywhere I go the walls are blurry or grey pictures. Sometimes if I wait a few minutes I get the grey gone though.

Is that first client plugged into a local sim? where is the lag?

By: Eris

Eris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:09:22 +0000

Is it realism? The official promo gives me the a weird sickly feeling but I’m not sure it’s the realism. It’s the life of toys. SL Residents are being portrayed in that promo as living the life of toys - life-like but never real.

By: Metacam Oh

Metacam Oh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:43:49 +0000

Whats worse, having people come in and be massively disappointed, or not having them come in at all? The experience in SL’s official video is almost laughable.

By: soror nishi

soror nishi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:18:07 +0000

hehhhe…. love it…
and the fact that you have to get naked (as a noob) in a sand box isn’t even hinted at.
none of those outfits were boxed???

By: Stefan Andersson

Stefan Andersson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0000

Dusan,

fun fact; there has always been a hard-coded limitation in the SL client not to accept avatar appearance updates from the server other than on the initial login sequence; every appearance update must be preceded with a ‘wear’ - so either they are changing this, these vid shots was made with a special client, or there is some serious post-production going on. Either way, the contrast is striking. Thank you for yet another great article!

By: Melponeme_k

Melponeme_k — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:40:57 +0000

The first one makes me depressed that I’m sitting behind a computer monitor.

The second…it wouldn’t be SL shopping without walking into a few walls.

By: Paisley Beebe

Paisley Beebe — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:25:56 +0000

hahah yep that right people will be a bit surprised that their first experience is nothing like the top vid