Self-Diagnostic exercise, part B
After a year living my second life, I’m still amazed by it. The graphical parts are wonderful and the possibilities of interactions are never ending…
I have to admit I was telling the same thing when I first started with 3Dmax… but this time there is a different story. I always have this challenge between art and computers science… between something that looks nice and still has computational parts related to it. When I was using other tools like 3dmax or AutoCAD, is considered “my personal interest” as long as it had nothing to do with Software engineering or information systems. But in SL, I can be a computer professional developing graphically nice things in SL which was great for me. There were many “wow” moments for me in SL such as finding a sheep which sends the data back to web using XMLRPC.
For me second life is one of the best tools for simulation, implementation and testing because sometimes just paper based ideas and theories are not making sense and you don’t have huge amount of money to implement then in real work. Using SL changed my whole project from pages and pages of philosophical theories, ethical viewpoints and computational algorithms to a sensible 3 minute demo in SL.
But what I want to do with it? Good question…
Hhhmmmmm, if I could find people interested in “machine ethics” to supervise my phd, I would love to continue using SL as a place to develop my theories. However, I’m still going to focus on teaching and learning aspects of SL as my “personal and professional interest”.
