A Journey into the Metaverse - Winner UWA III - "english version"

Winner, UWA III 2011 & Jury prize of Machinima Expo 2011-
This machinima is a metaphorical tale, questioning relationships established between reality and virtuality through our avatars and the play on the double meaning of the word 'avatar' refering to its original Sanskrit meaning of a spiritual quest.

The Metaverse is our collective online shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the internet. The word metaverse is a portmanteau of the prefix "meta" (meaning "beyond") and "universe".
The term was coined in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. Stephenson coined the term to describe a virtual reality-based successor to the Internet.Concepts similar to the Metaverse have appeared under a variety of names in the cyberpunk genre of fiction as far back as 1981 (in the novella True Names). (Wikipedia)
- In 2003, the online three-dimensional virtual world Second Life was launched by Linden Lab. The stated goal of the project is to create a user-defined world like the Metaverse in which people can interact, play, do business (using the virtual currency Linden Dollars, also purchasable with real money) and otherwise communicate.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/a-journey-into-the-metaverse-second-life-mac...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tutsy Navarathna
• UWA
• machinima
• contest
• avatar
• metaverse
• india
• video
• journey
• Second Life
• Machinima UWAIII contest
• real
• creature
• spirituality

[wordsmither01]

Love the way you blend both realities so well. It's also a tour of some of Second Life's most amazing places.

I am really going to worry about those alts I never log in anymore!

Loquacia Loon

[TutsyNavarathna]

@wordsmither01.. we must pay attention to avatars ! :)

[TutsyNavarathna]

A big thank you all for watching my machinima and have the kindness to leave comments. :)

[OpenThisEndCinemapop]

we have to do it, you made a wonderful art work, again, congrats! Aino Baar

[largelove70]

is therapeutical  watch this every so often as 2cndLifer hehehe -clever superbly done i recognize the pc room from riskcity, the wastelands too. ------------------------how fun so well done

[MissPixieRain]

Congrats tutsy, on your joint first place with Eric, at UWA III !

[WhiteLebed]

great job! rich visuals on top of a deep analytical exploration of the Metaverse meaning

[MoscowIsland]

What an awesome reality you made! Thank you!

[PhoenixEmbers]

Shows very good the wide spectre of virtuality but also the multi meaning of reality. Good play with terms and indeed great footage and filming.

[atarox]

Just wonderful!

[alorja1]

super.. very well done. Congrats. it amazing. WOW 

[CelestialElf]

superb film great :D