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This is my final conclusion, about Second Life:

Second Life had an interesting role on all this: being updated and experienced with the latest technologies brings a competitive advantage in some way or another. In my case, Second Life helped me in being the coolest candidate, among the few being able to use Second Life and not scared of a virtual job fair.
Such a good start gave me the energy to focus on unexpected commitment, which convinced my boss that I was a good hire.
I can guess that without Second Life, I would probably not dedicate so much time to this job.

What do you think about it?

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As good as usual, the Second Life section of Reuters talks about the new “Molotov Alva and His Search for His creator: a Second Life Odyssey“.

It seems a futile question, but… According to Ray Kurtzweil and his books, it may be rather important in a near future.

My take: virtual worlds will become predominant in 25 to 35 years, and people will melt with artificial intelligence bots in a virtual world. Frightening, or wonderful.

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Last friday, I had the pleasure to host Andrea Benassi (from Florence, Italy), and five students from New York City, in my “masterpiece”, the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (here the SLURL, if you know what a SLURL is).

We were in company of Costanza, an italian official tour guide, which usually accompanies real people in the real Basilica, and this time had the opportunity and pleasure to do so in Second Life.

You can watch the VIDEO OF THE VIRTUAL VISIT OF THE BASILICA, and take a look at the pictures here.

The experience was very intriguing: I’m sure this is one of the best way to use Second Life (as an educational / cultural tool), and the Basilica is a perfect place to do so, since it’s perfectly reproduced from the original “real” one (I personally studied and coded maps, pictures, georeferences and such).
If you’re curious, this is the origin of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Explaining things to a virtual audience is sometimes very cool: pointing out paintings with a red cone, for example, is much more involving than simply staring at pictures.

Also, students interacted a lot with the guide, using vocal chat, despite the recorded result shows some background noise (e.g. cats, dogs, kitchen noises) that you’d never find in a real visit

Together with Andrea, we are trying to plan more virtual visits, possibly on a regular basis (I’ll be pretty busy in the near future, so I’m delegating to someone else).
The “logistic” is not easy, since the virtual guide performs better when he/she moves the avatar without my intervention. We’ll figure out something.

If you can, digg this post; I think that the beauty of these paintings deserves something!
And… let me know if you liked the video, and feel free to contact me for any question (commenting the post)!
Thanks!

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In the next days you’ll find some “posthumous” posts, I’ll probably not be able to comment (I sometimes need few days without Internet, or with very low connection time), but I hope you’ll enjoy the posts.
See you soon my friends!

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The fun thing is that in a near future, holidays will be planned, and partly enjoyed, thanks to Virtual Realities, such as Second Life.

That moment is yet to come, but I’m pretty sure we’ll have to wait no more than 3 or 4 years. Innovation is so fast because it is based on previous innovations, like Ray Kurzweil said.

In the meanwhile, my happy readers, take a quick look at this: Second Life satisfaction.

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