Others on Immersion vs. Augmentation
September 5, 2006 on 3:49 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentHenry Jenkins has an interesting post called Experimenting with Brands in Second Life. Most of the post is taken directly from Ilya Vedrashko’s recent master’s thesis Advertising in Comptuter Games. What really caught my eye is the last part where Vedrashko highlights two views of SL that are very similar to what I have called Immersion vs. Augmentation.
Immersion vs. Augmentation II
September 3, 2006 on 5:50 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsI brought up the concepts of Immersion and Augmentation in an earlier post. Now I have been writing my thoughts on these mattes up in a longer piece. I feel that there are limits to how long I can get away with having my blog posts be, so if you are interested please go to Immersion vs. Augmentation. I would love some feedback right here in the blog or by mail.
Make no mistake
September 2, 2006 on 8:43 am | In Uncategorized | 3 CommentsBeing new in SL is hard. I just read a really good account of it. In First Steps in Second Life Stephanie Jane Booth of Switzerland shares that feeling of being new some of us remember so well. I liked this quote:
As one of the people who helped me out this morning said: “there’s not a lot of hand-holding”. Inside Second Life, of course, there are classes and coaching, but in my opinion the interface is complicated enough that it’ll get in the way from getting help in-world for many people.
This resonates really well with I have been hearing over the past months. I her next post on the matter she goes on to compare the Culture Shock in Second Life to arriving in India.
I remember arriving at New Delhi airport at 11 o’clock in the evening back in July 2003. The temperature was 41 °C (that’s 105 °F for you old schoolers :)) and the humidity was a 100%. I was felt so different and overwhelmed, which is such an interesting contrast to how the whole experience turned out to be one of the best I ever had.
Oh the memories…