Hello Second life!
Hello and welcome to my Blog about SL.
Recently i stumbled/jumped into the exciting world of virtual reality more or less by accident. We had one of those thrilling discussions about future market oportunities and which direction we should move within our own software business. Eventually one of us came up with the furious idea of doing something within Second life and he seriously asked the question, whether there could be more up with this new VR-hype, than leasure and fun. Since we are very curious people we quickly decided to give it a try. So we downloaded the Second life Viewer software from http://www.secondlife.com , installed it and got our first contact…
Well i must say, it was fun. Pure fun to create a virtual representation of my own, an Avatar, whom i customized upon my first Session. It was amazing to see my avatar representation running around, meet and get into direct contact with other people all around the world “instantaneously”. Well of course it was me, who had the complete control over what my Avatar does, but the on screen plot was unbelieveable and exciting. It was just “as if i really would meet these persons in my computer”.
I quickly decided to get more insight into this, mainly because this … “thing” looked so fantastic and it brought quite some fun right from the first minute. After some initial “dont know where to go” i finally decided to start some more serious investigations on the technologies, where we are of today, what are potential competitors… Now i am gathering information from all over the world and most of the people i’m currently talking with seam to share my enthusiasm about this theme. So i decided to open up this Blog where i will report mainly about my ideas and what i’m going to find out within and around Second Life. I invite you to share my ideas and discuss them seriously. I don’t know where all this will eventually end but it feels like beeing the right thing to do at this time. So stay tuned. More to come soon.
