By Stone Culdesac

A Second Look at Second Life…A New Practicality Emerging For Virtual Reality Technologies? A few weeks ago, I was far from the first to speculate pessimism on the viability of virtual reality site Second Life as a marketer’s dream. A few recent articles have prompted me to revisit the topic of virtual reality; one which validates my thinking on Second Life, but a couple of others that discuss remarkably exciting and practical uses of 3-D and virtual reality technologies.

‘CSI: NY’’s Second Life Adventure Was Delightful — But Not Revolutionary. At Least Not Yet. CSI: NY’s episode in Second Life was a total blast. I went into it with pretty low expectations, and was delighted throughout. It was a heck of a lot of fun — and it got Second Life right in spirit, even though the SL portrayed on the show was much faster, more stable, and had much better graphics than the real thing.

Don’t miss the CSI:NY “Down the Rabbit Hole” featuring Second Life! Gwyneth Llewelyn finds a BitTorrent so she can watch the CSI:NY episode, Down the Rabbit Hole, since she doesn’t have a TV. She writes a nice review though.

‘The Office’ Gets A Second Life Seems that Dwight Schrute is all about the new technology, as he’s going to show off his Second Life avatar in an upcoming episode of The Office. We can only imagine how this will be treated within the context of the show, which should be hilarious, especially given that it’s Dwight.

Dwight explores Second Life on NBC’s The Office tonight The NBC comedy seems to enjoy taking on the occasional geeky topic. On October 25, or tonight, the show will take another step in that direction. In an episode titled “Local Ad”, Dwight will log onto Second Life, and, well, hilarity is bound to follow.

Librarians and Second Life The latest discussion in Second Life, the virtual world, was What is important for librarians to learn about Second Life and what role should they be taking? This discussion was led by Maggie Kohime (Lyn Parker in real life) yesterday in the Centre for Information Literacy Research, Eduserv Island.

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Presentation to the National Library of Australia. 14 February 2007 by Kathryn Greenhill, coordinator of the Australian Libraries Building on Cybrary City in Second Life.

“Second Life” Challenges the Boundaries of Law in Cyberspace Virtual reality is fast becoming a mainstay in today’s modern culture of computer savvy citizens all over the world. [1] It is a concept of real time and space existing within a construct comprised entirely of a dynamic, streaming assembly of 1’s and 0’s of binary programming language, translated into an individual’s online world.

CSI:NY airs episode featuring Second Life - impressions Popular CBS crime-based science-fiction series, CSI:NY aired last night across North America, featuring Second Life as a major feature of a two-part story, the second part of which is due to air in February 2008.

House of Flames Festival in Second Life The House of Flames is offering a unique opportunity for an artist to open an entirely new marketing channel by performing as part of a festival taking place entirely in Second Life. With just a little preparation, an artist can play to an international audience, with the ability for listeners to click through to a web site to purchase or download the artist’s music.

Underworld: A second life for virtual bluesmen Technologies has launched its Innovation Isle in Second Life, a popular virtual world internet site. Wipro is said to be the first Indian company to establish a virtual brand presence.

Five Quick Tips to Enhance Your Second-Life Experience Photos: Make the Prim a Light Source. One: When creating pictures for your Second Life home using snapshots, consider turning the prim into a light source to make the image look better.

Torley’s thoughts on the CSI:NY Second Life episode Ah, popularity! Some or many of you may’ve heard that there’d be an ep of CSI:NY featuring Second Life, titled “Down the Rabbit Hole”. It aired yesterday, and while I wasn’t directly involved with the internal machinimations at Linden Lab to make it possible, my respects go to my fellow Lindens and Electric Sheep Company personnel who were — and I got to enjoy watching the episode as a (pretty much) casual bystander, curled up on the couch with my wife JennifeRavenelle.

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