4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Motivating people to upload an avatar - By defaulting to a photo of someone else.
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6 month ago
philgyford : New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes - A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. First thing that's made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock)
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deusx : Weep For The Future: Avatar Machine Further Distances You From Reality - Gizmodo - "Do you play so many videogames that you feel weird walking around without being able to see yourself from a third-person perspective?"
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15 month ago
adamrg : People and their Avatars - Three categories spring to mind: Reflected reality, constructed unreality, and fantasy.
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20 month ago
deusx : Pavatar - Recognize me! - "The Personal Avatar (aka Pavatar) is a personal picture hosted on your webspace which is then used by websites to display whenever referring to content provided by YOU, the user."
Rod Begbie : Pavatar - Recognize me! - Attempt to standardise personal avatar lookup, in a manner similar to favicons. [via] #
joshua : Pavatar - personal avatar imagery. i guess this goes with openid. kinda neat.
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33 month ago
Andy Baio : Second Life's virtual prison - they send you to The Cornfield
Nelson Minar : Virtual Prison - For bad Second Lifers. Spooky. (via Waxy)
plasticbag : Weirdest moderation technique ever - Second Life griefers are sent to 'The Cornfield' - If you misbehave a fair amount you are sent to this weird environment with only a slow tractor, lots of corn and a depressing film playing in black and white on an old TV for company. The big question is whether or not curious people will act up to see th
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42 month ago
plasticbag : Virtual Magic Kingdom: It?s a Virtual World After All - Terra Nova comments on the Disney idea to make a MMORG or social avatar-based space online that resembles the Magic Kingdom...
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