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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Analogy for Virtual Worlds 3 Reality 4 Godlike 5 Second Life - Closed?? 6 VW Economies 7 Education in Virtual Worlds

Introduction

• 1:30 - Rodica begins talking
  • Has a job where she brings real life companies into Second Life
  • Started out working with Asperger's patients
• 1:33 - Gene starts talking
  • 1/3 of the students raise their hands when asked if they have been in an online world before
  • Being with other people online
  • Societies, economies, law and governance in virtual worlds.
  • Code as law in games--much more serious than on the internet
• 1:40 - Talking about verifying identities on SL

Analogy for Virtual Worlds

• Comparison to immigration
  • • Are the motivations of immigration from country to country different from immigration to virtual worlds?
    • Chinese gold farmers! - exporting labor
    • How is it different from just recreational activities?
      • Investment as LIFE. Beyond activity.
  • Better analogy: joining a religious community? Non-market based.
  • Dual citizenship?
  • 1:50 - KB takes magic mushrooms
    • Virtual worlds as hallucinations
    • 1:51 - Charlie Nesson has never taken drugs. For the record.
    • 1:53 - Art also has not taken drugs.

Reality

• • What is reality?
    • World of Warcraft funeral in-world--got slaughtered by another clan: real or not real?
  • Steve: We are beings because we relate to and are situated to the others that we encounter?
    • Virtual worlds allow us to be related to other people.
    • Everything is just a phenomenon that is appearing to me, I choose how I interact with it.

Godlike

• Linden Labs are Gods in SL
  • Rodica is a demigod

Second Life - Closed??

• LindenLab as benevolent dictators in the space
  • Linden Lab gives you certain property rights
• Open Source alternatives - Metaverse project
  • How would internet governance work?
• Bill of rights for virtual world players
  • Companies don't want it
  • Players would rather have dictatorship than democracy--prefer having everything functioning than having complete control
    • 2:21 - Killing orcs vs. debating bill.
• Second Life as next evolution of web?
  • But the web has standards that are debated...in virtual worlds, too?

VW Economies

• 2:22 - How VW economies work
  • Political dictatorship and economy is open--like China?
• 2:25 - American Apparel and other companies opening shop in SL]
  • Translating real life into virtual space is going to stick around
• Product placement in SL
  • Brands interacting rather than just advertising to customers
• 2:31 - Critique of Second Life by Ethan Zuckerman

Education in Virtual Worlds

• 2:34 - Education in virtual worlds
• Teaching in SecondLife
• 2:35 - Introduction of William James (USA Brody)
• Bringing up kids in the future, making sure they can distinguish real from virtual
  • 2:40 - Would you teach your kids about Santa Claus?
  • Tuning kids in to being sophisticated consumers of virtual reality and real reality
• 2:42 - What is real about this space?
  • Bits vs. matter?
  • Why assign label of real or not real?
• 2:43 - How many layers of illusion are there from your reality
  • Real life as one layer, then Second Life as a second level
  • 2:44 - "I come from Colombia, where we produce all these drugs that you don't take"