Falling asleep in the virtual world
Just read this hilarious story from Wade Roush, the chief correspondent for Xconomy, about how his avatar “fell asleep” giving a lecture in Second Life:
“I was slightly embarrassed yesterday at Life 2.0, a virtual conference organized inside the virtual world Second Life by multimedia publisher CMP, when I realized that I’d been lecturing for 10 or 15 minutes but my avatar was slumped over the podium like a narcoleptic. It’s one of the unintentionally hilarious features of Second Life that when a user is “afk” or away from the keyboard for more than about 10 minutes, their avatar falls asleep. I wasn’t technically afk, but I was gabbing away over an audio link without remembering to nudge my avatar.”
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Tags: avatar, Second Life, Xconomy
