London Sparks
Funny old thing - it’s London and I live here. Suddenly the virtual world has descended in real life. I’m almost tempted to press the old "Turbo" button on the organics and hit the RL sim - but if anything, there is just too much going on.
We start the week with a games conference which includes massive emphasis on virtual worlds and we end it with the Virtual Worlds Forum. It seems our US friends in San Jose are considered persona-non-grata for the latter since they are direct competition, so they have retaliated by setting up shop in a hotel just down the road. Woot! More than likely I will ignor anything that doesn’t get presented either inworld or on the web.
I see from the Twitter feeds that a few are beginning to land in the vincinity, so we’ll see what’s what. Dang - why can’t they do this stuff in the summertime! Either way, I find my concentration suffers at such events. I almost ended going to the forum to report for SLNN - in retrospect they have escaped the likelyhood of my falling asleep on assignment.
I will say that the forum has dug out some bigwigs from the mainstream and that should be enough to get some serious media attention. Rumour has it the BBC and National Dailies are in "advance-compile" mode even as I write. Oh yes - and there’s some TV programme tomorrow too - or is that just USA?
Then again, maybe I should give that malfunctioning RL sim it’s own second chance. Even the metaverse gets sad at times - it looks like two friends have just seriously fallen out. Here.
That life i guess - second version that is.
PS: Just started reading "Second Lives" - a recent book by Tim Guest. It’s a biographical account of an extended period spent in SL and makes good reading in so far as those old "paper" thingies go. Check it out.
