From the site:
“Drew Carey takes us on a guided tour of Second Life (SL), a virtual world with more than 500,000 residents.”
Um…500,000?
Anyways.
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What Ever Happened to Drew Carey? He’s Teleporting in Second Life
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I had recently found myself yet again attempting to describe SL to someone who had no idea of virtual worlds. It is tough to know just what dimensions to outline. As I watched the video I first started thinking it was doing a good job but felt increasingly squeamish imagining it as the first introduction. But then, asking myself why they made it, I looked at the website’s ‘about’ page (http://reason.tv/about/) and saw their mission is to talk about “compelling stories about freedom from all corners [sic] of the internet…”
Reflecting on that, I think they do a decent surface skim on that dimension of SL.
(in a scene from a dance club, did I see Drew Carey’s AV shirtless and with really creepy back-hair? hehehe)
I think that they did a better job at explaining the possibilities in SL than any single news report on SL. They did include the sex side but by no means limited their report to that.
Though the machinima was crappy, low fps and their details off the mark - I am pleased to see that they didn’t bash SL.