In response to a request from Doubledown Tandino in the prior post, here’s a brief rundown of my past works on the importance of quality social events to the Second Life experience:
- The Best Second Life Arts Event Ever
- Vig’s Unified Theory of Second Life
- The importance of a quality social experience in SL
If nothing else, I’m consistent. And I still stick to my Unified Theory of Second Life – for what it’s worth:
The technical quality of the user experience in Second Life ™ is inversely proportional to the social quality of the user experience.
Long story short – if there’s a little lag, avatars are probably more likely to be having a good time. Because if there’s no lag, that means there are few avatars around to share the community experience.
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April 14, 2009 at 4:54 am
Paisley Beebe
Agreed wholeheartedly Vig, Putting on events in SL, when you have sim crashes lagg, and other technicals hang ups is very difficult, especially for the audience.
Imagine… your’e in the audience of a RL show, and you all get pushed out of the building half way through, then you have to come back in to get your seats and you keep falling over people and running into the walls…when you come back in… you can’t hear the music, your told its your fault and you have to toggle your ears…ahhh then it comes on again. But you can’t see the performer or the other people around you…they are behind a grey curtain, for 30 mins…..then it clears a little…but really you just have to listen you can’t hear…then someone next to you starts shouting Hoo HOo over and over in your ear…and you just want to hear the music!…all of a sudden strange grey boxes are dropped all over you you see vague pictures of Bill Cosby before your eyes…and the sound…drops out again this time its the performer…the sound system has gone down, a message over the PA say’s “its ok folks a little problem we will be back up in a bit”…But then you collapse…you actually pass out…for 10 mins and when you wake up you can’t get back into the show as the ambulance offers have taken you out of the venue and tell you its too packed you can’t go in, and anyway they are about to do a rolling restart on the theatre, at least on one side of it and everyone has had to move to one side of the theatre or they will be pushed out…yep…thank god while you are experiencing this event you haven’t had to pay for it, but…now the Artists Manager is harassing you on your stretcher to not only pay 1 dollar into a can she is rattling to support the Musician, but also into the other can which has the venue’s name plastered all over it…Keep the music flowing!!! she is saying…”huh” you say! it wasn’t flowing it was trickling in in spurts…and I couldn’t even get a drop!!! or see any bloody thing! and now Ive missed the entire show!
Now why wouldn’t more people want to come see a show like that! gees I don’t know…
Paisley
April 14, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Doubledown Tandino
yeaaah! this is the stuff!
tres importante!
April 14, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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April 15, 2009 at 6:59 am
Komuso Tokugawa
Hey, here’s a thought….Just imagine…if…stay with me now…imagine that the technology is actually not ready for prime time, you know, like it’s still very much prototype technology sort of like SL is, er, I mean was!…aaaaaaaaaaaaaand…you still there?..well, what we do is this.
1. We don’t actually listen to the marketing BS, but instead we actually assess the technology and get a feel for its real operational parameters, and how it might be used effectively within these boundaries
2. Understand how technology is generally adopted by the population at large, different models exist for this but a widely used one is called the Technology Adoption Life Cycle model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
3. Stop listening to the marketing BS again, take a deep breath, pour the VW koolaid down the toilet and start using the technology within the parameters it is actually capable of at this point in time.
4. Did I say stop listening to the marketing BS again?
5. Go to step 1, repeat cycle endlessly.
April 15, 2009 at 10:37 am
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