Fleep's Deep Thoughts Explore the Metaverse

So in trying to get caught up on my feeds, I see that I’ve missed some things and now my brain is trying to resolve all this new info. First up, from Chris Kelley’s blog, Virtual manufacturing in second life, takes us to Salon’s video of virtual factory workers making real jeans. Wow. Chris comments it’s a bit “artsy” but still, I’m shocked to see something like this in world so soon. Worth getting the Salon site pass if you’re not a subscriber.

Then Malburns Writer and Tara Yeats are back with another great option to view SL video clips from all over. Mogulus channel: Metaworld. Currently playing, a Korean broadcast with subtitles. Oh and there’s Draxtor’s show. NICE! This really rocks, if I can get the embed code to work.

[Edit: I can’t get Mogulus to embed in WordPress at all, darn. If anyone has a solution, I’m all ears. Otherwise use the link above to get to Mal’s fab new channel.]

Finally, after reading about it for months, I finally logged into SL from AJAXLife, the SL browser that uses a plain old webpage. It is.. mindblowing. Going to have to make a post over on the new SLED blog about this one.

So you go to the webpage and log in with your SL credentials. Your avatar appears in world, according to friends, looking back and forth in confused fashion. You can’t see yourself, or indeed anything, since you’re using a flat web page interface, but you have access to your friends list, local chat, IM, inventory, map, you can teleport.. it’s like.. using Second Life but being blind – you can’t see, but you can “hear” and TP. It’s .. mindboggling. And definitely an interesting option for students who can’t run SL at home but want to participate in a meeting, or contacting friends from a machine that can’t run SL .. and perhaps might work better with screen readers? I have no idea, but you must check it out.

Today is one of those days where the metaverse just blows my mind.

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