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The Archives
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02.26.09Live Theater in Second LifeAndrew Eglinton is a PhD student in the UK who's really interested in new and developing forms of theater. He recently took an interest in Second Life as a theater environment. After looking at it, he concluded that "Combined, these artefacts form the basis of an emerging culture - borderless, transient and democratised" and also writes that "the impact of the real time Web on the infrastructure of theatre is undeniable. It is changing the way we encounter theatre, the way we learn and talk about it, and it has given rise to new exploratory practice." Eglinton arranged an interview with ...
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05.07.08Immersive Education – Fail Safe Virtual Events?Second Life's grid shut downs, glitches, bugs, teleport failures and general crashes is frustrating for residents and can be a disaster for education or companies who need assurance that if they're planning an event that all will go according to plan - or if not by plan, at least the grid will be where it's supposed to be. Recently, the Immersive Education group made a move to shift discussions of virtual worlds for education off Second Life onto privately hosted servers, or to at least insure multiple redundancy. As they outlined in their e-mail to the immersive ed community: These will happen ...
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