4000 CPUS
1.4 million residents

Real world skills apply in SL: architect, builder, experiential learning

Culturan

M4--Mystical Multiple Molecule Modeler

Aura Lily--egyptology

Austin Hall, Berkman Center (Harvard)

"Mixed Reality"--"what's up with the Dalek from Dr. Who?"--BBC person in world as a character from Dr. Who.

SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster Live Webcast of Solar Eclipse

First responder and caregiver training

Communities of support: asperger's syndrome, stroke survivors, etc.
freedom from physical disability

New Media 1740-1915 Gitelman and Pingree

It was writers who insisted on page numbers--65 years after invention of printing press.

The artists change the paradigms, not the technical inventors. [True most of the time.]

Grad Student Colony

Talking on a cell phone is being in a virtual world

Fabjectory.com--create a SL model, send it to the company, then print out and send back at about 100.00.

what we've evolved to be good at:
navigate 3d environment
comunicate and creating communities
learning through shared experiences
use tools (our minds were made for mergers with tools--an extension of me)
take partial data and create something whole (tiger in the grass)

a good enough window and just enough immersion--our brains do this naturally

Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"--it's not hard to won something,. or everything....."