Next week in the Second Nature events series, our attention turns to Second Life itself as we welcome Luciftias Neurocam, the head of the Ecosystem Working Group.
Luciftias (Dr Corey Hart, a neurobiologist from Drexel University in his spare time) is the founder of the EWG, who created the content of the popular sim Terminus. On Terminus, a group of scientists and programmers created a series of “living” creatures which survive, reproduce and interact according to defined rules. The result is a fully functioning ecosystem, which has recently moved to a new home on Second Nature.
The basic lifeform, the Cannon Plant. Join us to meet more exciting animals!
Luciftias will be telling us about the ecosystem, what it does, results so far, and what their future ambitions are. He will take questions and then lead a tour of the ecosystem.
All welcome for what promises to be a fascinating look at one of the most interesting scientific uses of Second Life to date.
Speaker: Dr Corey Hart AKA Luciftias Neurocam
Date: Monday 22nd October
Time: 9am SLT/PDT, Midday EST, 4pm GMT, 5pm BST
Location: Second Nature Cafe
Contact: Joanna Wombat
Missing out on all these wonderful talks :(. I wish there was a way to capture them on “video” and see them at your leisure.
Actually, there is a way to record Second Life video – I haven’t really looked into it before, but I’ve had a brief look just now and the short video I took seemed pretty good. I’m not sure if it can record sound too, but I could easily record the sound separately (as we already are doing – audio recording coming soon for the last talks) and put them together.
Don’t know if it might be a huge file at the end, but I’ll investigate further and try to make a full video of the next talk as a trial.
Can’t work out how to edit a comment, so a new one. Reading back over that, I realised I should have specified that I was just trying out the video system built into SL, in the main File Menu. Anyone knows a better way, please let me know!
Will attendees get to kick the speaker in the groin? Go to Scott Adam’s Second Life event and you will be able to!
Or should we have other interaction possibilities? I liked a speaker so much, I cleaned out his earwax with my pinkie!
A good starting point to learn advanced techniques of making videos of Second Life is the Second Life Machinima wiki, at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Machinima
CSIRO had videos made of the scientist talks they gave in Second Life. SLCN.tv did it for them. You can see those videos at http://www.slcn.tv/programs/location/abc-island
My personal opinion is that video of an avatar giving a presentation is rather dull – avatars aren’t very expressive (yet).