Last night there was an excellent show on BBC 2 as part of the Wonderland series that covered Seond Life. Here is the youtube link (unfortunately embedding has been disabled). It followed the journey of two couples who were seemingly ready to make real life changing decision besed on their second life relationships. As you can imagine, the two couples end up at rather different outcomes by the end of the journey. The first couple ultimately get married in SL with the rest of their real life families all hooked into the SL network to see the prestigious event. The second couple how a wife and mother of two kids travels half the way round the world to find out that the person she met in SL does nothing for her in Real Life. It was really interesting to see how this SL committment actually exists in everyday interactions. The clip I have posted in particularily good as it is from the view of the husbad who's wife leave America for her SL 'boyfriend' who lives in England. There are some fantastic clips where all parties involved speak about the versions of 'the real'. And it was great to see that it was all about the people instead of this look at what the technology was doing. It was a cutting edge take and how the people make this technology what is it. There is a lovely clip where the two who meet up in England go for a picnic in the park and they are just sat silently next to each other. Obviously, the build up to leaving America involved a number of intense arguments that were now finished with this very anti-climatic walk through a London park - As if to say 'uh is this it then?' The section that followed showed her talking through how she couldn't have both worlds and actually felt kind of sorry for her. Her SL character she confessed 'was everything that she wanted to be' and that all she wanted to do is 'bring a little bit of that into the real world'. For those two that got married their real life counterparts had been everything they wanted to be, but obviously this took some adjustent from them to see that they would not have the physical characteristic they do in SL. Perhaps what is needed here is an ability to see that they only thing that is really 'true' in SL is the interaction itself.
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Real Life vs Second Life
Last night there was an excellent show on BBC 2 as part of the Wonderland series that covered Seond Life. Here is the youtube link (unfortunately embedding has been disabled). It followed the journey of two couples who were seemingly ready to make real life changing decision besed on their second life relationships. As you can imagine, the two couples end up at rather different outcomes by the end of the journey. The first couple ultimately get married in SL with the rest of their real life families all hooked into the SL network to see the prestigious event. The second couple how a wife and mother of two kids travels half the way round the world to find out that the person she met in SL does nothing for her in Real Life. It was really interesting to see how this SL committment actually exists in everyday interactions. The clip I have posted in particularily good as it is from the view of the husbad who's wife leave America for her SL 'boyfriend' who lives in England. There are some fantastic clips where all parties involved speak about the versions of 'the real'. And it was great to see that it was all about the people instead of this look at what the technology was doing. It was a cutting edge take and how the people make this technology what is it. There is a lovely clip where the two who meet up in England go for a picnic in the park and they are just sat silently next to each other. Obviously, the build up to leaving America involved a number of intense arguments that were now finished with this very anti-climatic walk through a London park - As if to say 'uh is this it then?' The section that followed showed her talking through how she couldn't have both worlds and actually felt kind of sorry for her. Her SL character she confessed 'was everything that she wanted to be' and that all she wanted to do is 'bring a little bit of that into the real world'. For those two that got married their real life counterparts had been everything they wanted to be, but obviously this took some adjustent from them to see that they would not have the physical characteristic they do in SL. Perhaps what is needed here is an ability to see that they only thing that is really 'true' in SL is the interaction itself.
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