SL -- still more EduFaire

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Found another ladder up to another look-out.

Hey -- the Discovery Channel is here!





A place where lots of people can listen to a presentation. This is the most people I've seen in SL. Note that most are humanoid, but not all (see the bird, mid left?).....





Wow. One day I'll have to catch a play! If the production quality is as good as what we can see here, it will be wonderful, I bet!







Enormous message-in-bottle. Cool.





In the Discovery Channel booth. A couple of my favorite Discovery Channel guys.





More and more booths and displays.





The green sphere is really two transparent spheres, each with green lines, rotating separately. Cool.

Hmmm. What do you suppose that thing that looks like a lily petal is?





A chair, that's what. Rather than "sit here," which is what we are usually offered as a choice when we click on something sit-able, the petal said "RELAX."

Unfortunately, clicking on it crashed SL on my computer. Oops. When I logged back in after a couple of minutes, I reappeared, standing, well, standing *in* the chair....

I didn't try RELAXing again.....





I took this shot because I love the banners. The landscaping in the upper right is also excellent.

There is something to be said for taking pics of stuff that doesn't move. (Especially when that stuff is not so reflective that you have to be concerned about images of the camera in your pics!)

You can futz around as much as you want, adjusting the camera's position. And, of course, you can adjust it in ways you totally cannot do in RL -- up in the air, for example.........

This does not mean, I find, that I have no cropping to do in post-processing. But less than in RL......





Back at the amphitheatre.

The people on stage are with the Discovery Channel. This is the first time I've heard people speaking in SL. As bandwidth increases, I predict that we'll all stop with the typing, already, and just talk to each other.

Mostly what they had to say was ... well ... it was more chatty than presentationy, if you will. Some interesting urls were given.

But just this glimpse of the way more and more things will be done in the future.....

Cool.





From the other side of the stage. They little guy on stage, with wings, is one of the Linden Labs people.





I am so glad I came to this event. So glad to have explored a little and to have seen the little extras. Glad to have seen the amphitheatre with so many people, and to have heard the voices of the speakers. Glad to have gotten a taste of the way the educational community is using SL.

I collected landmarks for art and science locations -- Sistine Chapel, anyone? -- and am looking forward to going touristing.

Excellent.

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