TOGGLE: A Mixed Reality Piece by Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire

This piece, made for the PBS TV series Frontline's Digital Nation web project, explores friendships made in the virtual world of Second Life. It tells a story about how friendships can span time zones and great distances, as the people (who are by themselves at their computers) experience a closeness while their "avatars," or representations of themselves in the virtual world, are together in Second Life. It combines "machinima," or digital video captured in a 3-d environment or game, with actual world footage to show how people who spend time in virtual worlds toggle, or shift between, the two realities, modes of interaction, and perspectives.

Dresses by Lady Thera and Eshi Otawara. Pancake outfit by Juls Rosca.

For more info about the ideas behind TOGGLE: http://www.tricksterproductions.com/toggle

cc Creative Commons Copyright Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Second Life
• SL
• virtual world
• mixed reality
• L1Aura
• machinima

[rose13red]

I have several Virtual friends in SL. 2 of them have urged me to travel and see them in RL. But I am hesitant. Can our "shared hallucination" stand the collision of worlds? Or will the Dream collapse on itself? To me SL friendships seem even more fragile than chatroom friendships because the fantasy life is so rich, we create such deep stories about one another that Reality seems doomed to disappointment.

[PrincePrimeval]

really interesting :)