[MD] RPG's, AI's, Gaming and "Virtuality"

[Heather Perella]

Second Life.  That is sooo funny!  So real, so wierd,
so I have no idea where this gaming stuff is going.

white and green,
SA


     [Mike]
> Hadn't heard of Second Life before. It's interesting
> to see MMORPGs
> going mainstream. It's getting column inches in
> stodgy conservative
> newspapers here in England. A friend of a friend is
> doing an
> anthropology field study relating to MMORPG
> behaviour. And now there's
> Second Life, using the MMORPG format and sanitising
> it of the elves
> and dragons (and maybe, the excitement) of World of
> Warcraft etc. The
> possibilities are astounding, and in some cases a
> little worrying,
> especially seeing how there seems to be no
> insulation between the
> fantasy economy and the real (or better-established
> fastasy) economy.
> Money-laundering, anyone? Those virtual islands look
> like a nice
> investment...
> 
> Anyway, I was wondering how this professor is using
> Second Life with
> his course. Will the students gather in a virtual
> lecture theatre?
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 1/22/07, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> > Case (and anyone interested),
> >
> > Started a new thread to sort this topic apart.
> >
> > Since this hasn't been mentioned (unless I missed
> it), one of our
> > professors is using Second Life
> (http://secondlife.com/whatis/) with
> > an applied linguistics course this semester.
> >
> > Check it out.
> >
> > Arlo
> >
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