Blair Golson
May 28, 2008 |
2:01 pm EST
Try to grok the meta-ness of this scene:
I’m at a Netsquared Conference panel in San Jose. Four panelists are at the head of the room. They’re talking about how non-profits are doing community-building and program events in Second Life, the popular virtual world.
Each of those panelists’ avatars are sitting at a similar table in a similar panel room in Second Life. We in San Jose are watching that virtual panel taking place on a projection screen behind the real-life panelists.
But making it even more meta, the video of our real-life panel is being streamed live into Second Life and projected onto a virtual screen behind the avatars.
So we’re watching them, watching us, watching them. Or is it the other way around?
This quick video I shot of the scene might help:
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“Try to grok the meta-ness of this scene”
This is the line of the conference, man. Hilarious.
Alex SteedThanks for the terrific post & vid–and I agree with Alex, great line! More pictures/coverage at http://www.flickr.com/tags/npsl and stay tuned for machinima (Second Life video) coverage on the Nonprofit Commons blog soon: http://www.nonprofitcommons.org
Megan Keane[...] Live-blogging from Netsquared: Second Life and the Non-profit Commons (the most meta panel I’ve ever attended) [...]
Netsquared Presents: The Sexiest Non-Profits Alive! | TakePart Blog Network May 29, 2008 | 3:12 pm EST[...] [Check out this post at Participant Media about conferences, Second-Life, and the paradoxical meta-ness of it all] [...]
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