Does your avatar‘s appearance influence your real life appearance? The August 2009 issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research contains an article titled, Does this Avatar Make Me Look Fat? that suggests it might. Using a technique called "In-Avatar Interviewing," the interviewers’ avatars interviewed other avatars in-world. This allows interviewers to completely control not only…
Day: September 5, 2009
Burning Life 2009 teaser
Back in 2003, a group of software developers in San Francisco were too busy creating a new virtual world called Second Life to attend something else they loved, the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, so they did something audacious. After getting permission from Burning Man organizers, they created their own Burning Man in…