imdbot (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. lamesarkas (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. Skeckulous (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. ATTENTION (6:16:12 PM): Skeckulous is on your blocked list. AlaDiab (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. sklathill (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. ATTENTION (6:16:12 PM): sklathill is on your blocked list. michaelnaimark (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. peterp101 (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. kasskat (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. lulucaoch (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. dread33sf (6:16:12 PM) has entered the room. nsamazon (6:16:27 PM) has entered the room. nsamazon (6:16:33 PM): hello pseudostereo (6:16:56 PM) has entered the room. dread33sf (6:17:22 PM): IMD Forum 4/2: Big Stage taiyoungryu (6:22:57 PM) has entered the room. AlaDiab (6:26:07 PM): that's real talent right there! nsamazon (6:26:49 PM): Ala - what's it like to see your self up there? does it feel like you? AlaDiab (6:27:27 PM): it's an interesting simulacrum! peggyweil (6:27:53 PM) has entered the room. peggyweil (6:27:58 PM): here kasskat (6:27:58 PM): Thought the last Pirates clip compositing looked really nice. nsamazon (6:28:38 PM): I would like to see Ala and Perry Hoberman's models side by side, to see how nuanced it can get pseudostereo (6:29:15 PM): exactly what are you implying? kasskat (6:29:21 PM): Hahaha. AlaDiab (6:29:23 PM): :) pseudostereo (6:30:53 PM): they'll make us smarter & more attractive!!! AlaDiab (6:31:05 PM): looking forward to it Skeckulous (6:31:05 PM) has left the room. kasskat (6:32:39 PM): I think I am not totally convinced... I thought part of the appeal of the internet was, maybe not the anonymity, but being something you can't be in real life. >_> AlaDiab (6:34:23 PM): Exactly. I'm not an undead pirate! peterp101 (6:34:34 PM): That is just what I was thinking. kasskat (6:34:45 PM): Are you sure? >_> lamesarkas (6:34:47 PM): I would argue that being able to be something else and relative anonymity are very well-connected concepts AlaDiab (6:35:35 PM): something interesting was happening to me when I was watching a not so accurate copy of myself pseudostereo (6:36:11 PM): your slightly defective clone... AlaDiab (6:36:24 PM): It's like when the 'villagers' saw themselves in photos for the first time AlaDiab (6:36:36 PM): Give me my soul back! kasskat (6:36:37 PM): Well I just think of a simpler version, like avatars. I never use real photos of myself for avatars or userpics or what have you... would rather use something ridiculous. peterp101 (6:37:11 PM): what if someone who doesn't like you and has a picture of you does bad things online with an avatar having your face ? kasskat (6:37:35 PM): That too. AlaDiab (6:37:43 PM): define bad AlaDiab (6:37:59 PM): there ethical issues of course peterp101 (6:38:01 PM): true peterp101 (6:38:28 PM): you could star in a ben afleck movie pseudostereo (6:38:55 PM): and improve the movie peggyweil (6:39:53 PM): so paparazzi will have a new assignment, not just a flashy photo, but three accurate photos AlaDiab (6:40:09 PM): indeed! peggyweil (6:41:04 PM): not just the gov AlaDiab (6:41:34 PM): but Britney in a Ben Afleck movie is something the world can do without kasskat (6:44:09 PM): Which game is that? >_> dread33sf (6:47:13 PM): Another approach: dread33sf (6:47:15 PM): http://www.pulse3d.com/ kasskat (6:47:33 PM): I see a puppy. I'm sold. dread33sf (6:48:42 PM): and another: dread33sf (6:48:43 PM): http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=358 dread33sf (6:52:22 PM): http://www.bigstage.com/ Aardbj (6:53:13 PM) has entered the room. peterp101 (7:01:10 PM) has left the room. peterp101 (7:01:20 PM) has entered the room. dread33sf (7:02:11 PM): http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=358 nsamazon (7:07:41 PM): everyone's ten pounds thinner and three inches taller online kasskat (7:08:06 PM): Ten sounds conservative. >_< AlaDiab (7:08:07 PM): not in second life kasskat (7:11:21 PM): That's pretty much the only application I can safely see myself using my own image for, seriously. nsamazon (7:11:43 PM): an internment camp? kasskat (7:12:00 PM): Um, not necessarily. :X Just like, me retelling life stories. kasskat (7:12:46 PM): But just like... using your real life image for real life things, and using a non-real image for non-real things. I don't want to see myself running around in World of Warcraft, healing people or getting the stuffing kicked out of kasskat (7:12:48 PM): me. :( dread33sf (7:14:58 PM): isn't videoconferenceing an obvious app? kasskat (7:15:10 PM): I don't actually like video conferencing. Haha. peggyweil (7:15:33 PM): there are a lot of (not always successful) conferences in SL peggyweil (7:15:49 PM): but small meetings (3-5 people) are extremely effective with avatars peterp101 (7:16:13 PM): I think in a 2nd life virtual conference (like the virtual guantonamo stuff) this would be great. kasskat (7:16:19 PM): But do you think those small meetings would be even more enhanced by people using avatars that looked like themselves? peggyweil (7:16:30 PM): what about the media mainstays of gambling and porn peterp101 (7:16:46 PM): then you wouldn't want your avatar to look like you. peterp101 (7:17:41 PM): i guess it's if you want to be recognized. In SL at a conference you would want to be recognized, otherwise probably no. peggyweil (7:18:17 PM): buying and selling kasskat (7:18:18 PM): Usernames seem like they would work just as well for recognition, most of the time. I have an easier time remembering a person's username than someone's face for the first time. peterp101 (7:19:01 PM): I am absolutely opposite. If I didn't have everyone's AIM name translate to their real names, i'd have no idea who I was talking to. peggyweil (7:20:38 PM): won't people want to make more than one self? kasskat (7:20:41 PM): I went through a Sims 2 phase where I got all my girlfriends to make Sims of themselves and I put them all in a house and let them go. peterp101 (7:22:53 PM): http://www.metaverseroadmap.org/ nsamazon (7:23:24 PM) has left the room. nsamazon (7:23:28 PM) has entered the room. dread33sf (7:25:35 PM): transmission of presence imdbot (7:28:20 PM) has entered the room. lamesarkas (7:28:20 PM) has entered the room. 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ATTENTION (7:41:34 PM): Skeckulous is on your blocked list. peggyweil (7:41:37 PM): put another face on it nsamazon (7:41:38 PM): mine too! and how fun is that... peterp101 (7:44:31 PM): I think we need a digital face version of all the Professors in the IMD for the interactive main page :) peggyweil (7:44:35 PM) has left the room. pseudostereo (7:44:45 PM) has left the room. kasskat (7:44:56 PM) has left the room. lulucaoch (7:45:05 PM) has left the room. nsamazon (7:45:11 PM) has left the room. peterp101 (7:45:27 PM) has left the room. Aardbj (7:45:27 PM) has left the room. taiyoungryu (7:45:34 PM) has left the room. AlaDiab (7:48:46 PM) has left the room.