SL Video : "Perspective and Place In Virtual Space"

 

 

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 From Erik Mondrain on April 2022, "A short video essay I made, talking about 'perspective' and 'place' and how these concepts manifest within the virtual world of Second Life"

Giant House at Oxygen

Most longtime residents whom have been around for over a decade remember the "Greenies" sim. The place was only two rooms, but was built at such a huge scale that normal-sized avatars looked mouselike in comparison, with small green aliens around the place in whimsical situations. Sadly in 2010, the sim was closed. Recently, there was a location that gave residents a similar experience, Oxygen owned by Justice Vought at the River sim. Gemma Cleanslate recently went there, and had a look around.

Read Gemma's article in Places.

What Second Life Means From A Disabled Person's Point of View

It was about a year ago Deaflegacy first came to Second Life. As someone whom is deaf in real life, Deaflegacy found communicating with others quite different in the virtual world. In her latest article, she describes from her point of view what Second Life has meant.

Read Deaflegacy's article in People.

Land of the Giants

Many older residents in Second Life remember the "Greenies Home" sim, a place that was two giant rooms that made visitors seem mouse-sized. While the Greenies have long left Second Life, there is a place in the Grid where one can explore giant rooms of which the size difference makes the ordinary look extraordinary. Second Life Newser found out about the location, and Gemma Cleanslate went to explore the huge builds, which had a number of fun activities as well.

Read more in Places.

Sneak Peek: Land of the Giants

Yours truly has been exploring a little, and not yet finished with other articles came across one worth exploring: "Land of the Giants," at the Random sim along with the Demo Derby owned by the people at "Creations for Parkinsons."

So until I get to writing about the place, here's a link for you to see for yourselves.

Random (125, 248, 4000)

Astronaut Ron Garan: "The Orbital Perspective"

Astronaut Ron Garan will present a talk about life in space and the perspective of our planet from orbit, including a question and answer session.

Ron is an astronaut, a highly decorated Fighter Pilot and Test Pilot, Explorer, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and over 27 hours of EVA during four spacewalks. He flew on the US Space Shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station. Ron is also an aquanaut and participated in the joint NASA-NOAA, NEEMO-9 mission in Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research laboratory.  Ron’s last assignment was in NASA's Open Innovation Initiative, which seeks to increase openness, transparency, collaboration, and innovation within government.


Friday, July 5th at 9:30 pm PDT

UH Aquaculture Program (45, 82, 25)