Getting a Second Life
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Getting a Second Life
Matt GanisIBM - Senior Technical Staff Member
Hawthorne, New York
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Virtual Worlds
A Virtual world is an online environment A Virtual world is an online environment where the residents are avatars that where the residents are avatars that represent the individuals that are represent the individuals that are participating online.participating online.
Users of virtual worlds design their Users of virtual worlds design their environments and often their avatars as environments and often their avatars as well,from gender to clothing and hairstyle, well,from gender to clothing and hairstyle, and control how those avatars and control how those avatars communicate, move, create things, and communicate, move, create things, and interact. interact.
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Virtual Worlds
The functioning of a virtual world can mirror The functioning of a virtual world can mirror that of the real world, or it can allow that of the real world, or it can allow residents to do such things as fly, residents to do such things as fly, wander around underwater, or teleport wander around underwater, or teleport themselves to other locations. themselves to other locations.
Today’s virtual worlds are immersive, Today’s virtual worlds are immersive, animated, 3D environments that operate animated, 3D environments that operate over the Internet, giving access to over the Internet, giving access to anyone in the world.anyone in the world.
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What is Second Life? A virtual world…
• 3-D animated “metaverse” • Humans interact via “avatars”• Create, build, work, play, socialize• Without real world limitations
• Environment (servers, software) owned by Linden Lab, small CA company
• Opened to the public in 2003
• Grown explosively – >11,000,000 registered inhabitants from around the globe
• Originally intended as social experience
• Business is now being conducted
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Second Life Population (as of 1/10/08)
Residents Logged-In:
During Last 7 Days 438,601 During Last 14 Days 586,647 During Last 30 Days 860,629During Last 60 Days 1,341,350
Total Residents 11,852,562
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What is Second Life?
“Residents come to the world from over 100 countries with concentrations in North America and the UK … 60% are men, 40% are women and they span in age from 18 - 85.”
It is NOT a “game”
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What Can You Do in SL?
Explore Meet People
Chat (IM) Talk (Voice now available) Make groups
Make and Spend $ Build
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Who are you in SL?
Avatars
Virtual representation of yourself
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Avatars Your virtual representation
Stored in a central database Important features
Appearance How you look
(height, clothing, etc) Inventory
What you can use
and what you can DO Local animations Local sounds Other primitives or scripts
Communication State and Motion
Position, orientation, velocity, colliding, physics, etc
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Avatars: What they can doAvatars: What they can do Create primitives Interact with (touch) primitives
This often activates scripts Attach prims to themselves Chat (whisper, say, shout)
This can also activate scripts Navigate
Ground-based (walk, run) Air-based (fly)
Predefined animations
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PrimitivesPrimitives
Seven base material types Stone, metal, glass, wood, flesh, plastic, rubber
Has several other state parameters Physical Flexible (automatically non-physical) Texture Color Bumpiness Lighting Transparency
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Linden Script Language (LSL) Embedded in a prim (or a group of prims)
Not in avatars Each prim in a group can have a script
Similar to C or Java But with an emphasis on states and events
Events trigger behaviors (functions) Can also cause a change of state
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Welcome to my home….
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Furnishing your home is up to you
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Livable Community
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Can they be modeled in Secondlife?
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Is this accessible to everyone ?
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People (avatars) come in all shapes and sizes
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Features Features of Livable of Livable
CommunitiesCommunities
Safety/SecuritySafety/Security Formal/Informal Formal/Informal ServicesServices Home DesignHome Design
Parks & Parks & RecreationRecreation
TransportationTransportation
The ArtsThe Arts
Well Designed Well Designed SidewalksSidewalks
Roads designed for Roads designed for Safe DrivingSafe Driving
Housing OptionsHousing Options
Well Run Community Well Run Community CentersCenters
Livable Communities
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Elm Street
Store Fronts Shopping
Residential
Community Center
High School
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Features Features of Livable of Livable
CommunitiesCommunities
Safety/SecuritySafety/Security Formal/Informal Formal/Informal ServicesServices Home DesignHome Design
Parks & Parks & RecreationRecreation
TransportationTransportation
The ArtsThe Arts
Well Designed Well Designed SidewalksSidewalks
Roads designed for Roads designed for Safe DrivingSafe Driving
Housing OptionsHousing Options
Well Run Community Well Run Community CentersCenters
Livable Communities
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Are you ready ?Are you ready ?