I've posted several pieces about the magic of presence in SL. Today, in my daily trawl through news related to SL, I came across this gem from Gavin Keeley, General Manager of Solutions at Suncorp Metway. The basic thesis: whilst meetings have their official uses, and video conferencing serves them, a lot of the real value of a meeting is the informal chatting before and after the meeting - something video conferencing doesn't encourage whilst meeting in SL enables it just like IRL.Whilst it's a fascinating thought about the value of meetings, it's a fairly insightful piece about one benefit of meeting of meeting in SL. But what do you think? Just Askin'
(Original piece by Simon Sharwood)
I don't wanna get into another Immersionist/Augmentationist argument over this. Essentially, I was speaking with a friend about a mutual acquaintance of ours, when the topic of meeting people from SL in RL came up. I thought it would be nice if the two of them met, and my friend demurred. She knew that although her friend played as female in SL, he was male in RL. She felt that this would make meeting her/him awkward.
Fast Company
