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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Second Life Experience
I like the concept of Second Life, but I feel the execution is still far from what would be necessary for an experience as immersive as the Metaverse. The first thing I tried out was to test what happens when … Continue reading
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Second Life Experience
When choosing my avatar, I took this as an opportunity to be someone completely different than my actual self. While a couple of the avatars resembled me, I thought it would be boring in an alternate reality to be the … Continue reading
Second Life
Second Life was an interesting experience because it was quite obvious the game’s programmers tried to make it imitate life as closely as possible. The 360 degree movement helped create that illusion that you were within this world as … Continue reading
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Second Life
In choosing an avatar, I tried to find one that looked most like me in real life. However, many of the women featured in the selection looked the same, just with different hair colors and clothes. Overall, they were very … Continue reading
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Breaking the Metaphor – Second Life Experience
Perhaps its the bias that I bring from Snow Crash or my understanding of VR through more modern technology, but Second Life and its universe felt hollow to me. Although the world was populated with people and activities, the metaphor … Continue reading
Second Life VR Experience
Second Life provides a very interesting Virtual Reality experience. It’s slightly eerie how the environment is programmed to mimic the natural environment; for example, the water moves in a way that mimics real waves. These small details help to make … Continue reading
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Hyperreal in Social Media
Hyperreality is tied up in the notion of the inability of consciousness to distinguish between reality and the simulation of reality. We also see in the definition of hyperreal, the repeated copy and simulation of a simulation and so on, … Continue reading
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Irony and Humor in Snow Crash
Stephenson uses ironic, tongue in cheek humor to reveal his intention of commenting on current day society. The novel begins, “The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory.” He uses genre words like “mission” and descriptions of his … Continue reading
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Second Life Experience
My Second Life journey started when I picked my avatar; I simply went with the one that looked most like me because it felt most comfortable. I noticed there were more male avatars than female, and wondered if more males … Continue reading
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Mertonian Criminology Examines the Characters of Snow Crash
Criminologist Robert Merton’s Anomie theory sheds intellectually significant perspectives on the behavior of the characters in Snowcrash. Anomie theory suggests that it is impossible for all people to legally achieve the American Dream, that of grand economic success. Therefore, there … Continue reading
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