I am thinking to create a virtual web-log. The amazing thing is that it brings you at my virtual home courtyard. If you are welcomed, specifically your 3D structure can get in to my drawing room, can have sit and talk with me. My Avatar would talk to you even with my voice. I have many external links, actually hallways where you can read my posts, pages and watch videos, images, and many other things. How cool?
Just right after this brilliant idea suddenly my eyes stuck with the writing named “Second Earth” by Wade Roush. Basically what author does is nothing but tries to scare those creative people like me. “Avatars of a sort can already travel through Google earth thanks to Unype, a mashup using the free voice-over-IP program Skype. Developed by New York software consultant Murat Aktihanoglu, Unype helps geography hounds logged in to Skype synchronize their copies of Google earth so that they are viewing the same locations and layers. Unype can insert crude, nonanimated avatars, which the users can build themselves in the Collada format.” Who ever but I do not like Collada format. For better understanding lets check this one: “Scientists are using Google earth to monitor lives sensor network. James Reserve, a wilderness area in California’s San Jacinto Mountains, to a public KML layer in Google earth. Click on an icon in Google earth representing one of the reserve’s nest boxes, and you get readout of the temperature and humidity inside the nest, as well as a live webcam picture showing weather any birds are at home.” I wish I can rent a space at Mars to keep my secrecy.
Now the Global Warming is one of the most privileged issues for us and the world’s millennium goal is to ensure environmental sustainability. However, to serve the reimagining real world we need to generate huge power that can destroy our world.
“Each server at Linden Lab supports one to four “regions,” 65,536-square-meter chunk of the Second Life environment—establishing the base topology, storing and rendering all inanimate objects, animating avatars, running scripts, and the like. This architecture is what makes it next to impossible to imagine re-creating a full scale earth within Second Life, even at a low level of detail. At one region per server, simulating just the 29.2 percent of the planet’s surface that’s dry land would require 2.3 billion servers and 150 dedicated nuclear power plants to keep them running.” After all these statements from the
“Second Earth” I really lost my interest from my virtual web-log or “Second Life”. I want to enjoy my real and only life.
Wow after seeing this I am amazed. There is a difference between playing a game for fun, and then there’s taking it too far, and i think getting married on second life is taking it a bit tooo far. I find the video very disturbing. Although it’s understandable how someone could get addicted specially if they have terrible lives, but getting addicted to the game won’t make things any better. Also you are right about the privacy part. It seems that as the years pass by people have less and less privacy, for instance in the Ipod touch there is an application that allows you to track other people, and i believe it will get to a point where it will be extremely easy to stalk people, and know everything that they are doing every day at every hour.