With the ability to connect prims to reality, to create a flow of data in and out to both physical location and other information spaces, we can start to picture how the atomic, real-time, and expressive rendering of Second Life can actually start to capture more than the forms of content that we typically think of as a “3D world”.

In Farmville, you’re learning how to feed an algorithm, to play a game with rules and mechanics and requirements.

In Second Life, you’ve been toying with a multi-dimensional information space created on the fly in real time, that has shown itself to be a powerful entry into story, emotion, insight, collaboration, creation, and prototyping.

In other words, you’ve been using tools that will, with luck, be extended to include the capture of forms of knowledge and wisdom which are beyond the reach of all of the type of content that simply, well, stares back.

As we work or play in Second Life, we are contributing to a larger project: the creation of wisdom and of the new narratives that articulate that wisdom. This is a form of artificial intelligence that shifts us past formulas and social graphs into something that has more profound implications than the fact that someone busted a hole in the back wall: in this case, there’s the potential to blow the roof off.

via Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Path Finders: On the Road to Meaning in Virtual Worlds.

Have a look: Miro Collas on Blogger.

To make this machinima he calls “Metamorphosis”, Spyvsspy Aeon translated a Portuguese poem into English, put the verses into beautifully rendered subtitles, then complemented them with sweeping, gorgeously rendered shots from famous virtual landscapes created AM Radio.

(Via New World Notes.)

More in my art album.

In the wake of the recent first avatar teleport between Second Life and an OpenSim region, Linden VP Joe Miller, better known to Second Life residents as “Joe Linden,” spoke to Reuters about Linden Lab’s long-term strategy.

via Reuters/Second Life » Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future.

Miro Collas - Merman

Miro Collas - Merman

Miro Collas - Merman

Miro Collas - Merman

Miro Collas - Merman

Yes, mermen do have cocks!