Elevating the Human Condition
Philip Rosedale, Cofounder of High Fidelity and previously of Linden Labs, discusses the next wave of virtual reality, and demonstrates his new product High Fidelity which allows sharing of facial expressions and expressive avatars using 2D and 3D cameras.
Film student Colin Marchon delivers a nice 3 part series on transhumanist themes.
So many people came that the Second Life server was overloaded and eventually (snow-)crashed! The first 12 minutes of the video are surreal and fun: watch first the event organizer, then the cameraman and the founder of Second Life himself, ejected from Second Life! Luckily the event continued via Google Hangout and we’ve got the video here.
On Thursday, May 15, at 11am PDT (2pm EDT, 8pm EU) there will be a meeting in Second Life to discuss the VR renaissance outlined in Back to the future in the Metaverse.
