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Download the first-ever live broadcasts from within Second Life, from public radio's The Infinite Mind (on MP3s):
Through the Looking Glass is a landmark four-part public radio series taped and produced in the virtual 3D world of Second Life. These groundbreaking programs examine the development and state of on-line virtual communities, including their technology, culture and art.
"Through the Looking Glass: Virtual Communities" (Part One)
John Hockenberry's guests include Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, Thomas Malaby, anthropologist who has examined Second Life; and Howard Rheingold, who predicted the formation of on-line worlds.
"Through the Looking Glass: Virtual Culture" (Part Two)
Guests include John Lester, a former information director at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, and acclaimed graphic artist John Maeda of the MIT Media Lab.
"Through The Looking Glass: Music and Magic" (Part Three)
Host John Hockenberry is joined live in Second Life by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega, along with virtual musicians who make their living in Second Life.
"Through The Looking Glass: Transmission of Experience" (Part Four)
Part four examines The Transmission of Experience and John Hockenberry is joined live in Second Life by author Kurt Vonnegut.
Click here to read more about these programs.
Visit LCM in Second Life
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What is Second Life?
Second Life is a virtual 3-D online community, built and owned by its two million residents.
- In Second Life, you can socialize, trade goods and services, enjoy entertainment, and own and sell real estate.
- Second Life “in-world” economy supports tens of millions of dollars in real world transactions each month.
- Second Life residents retain the rights to their own digital creations, which they are free to buy from and sell to other residents.
- Since its inception four years ago, the virtual community has grown to a population of 2.4 million residents.
LCMedia and Second Life: Pioneering the New Public Media.
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The Infinite Mind’s 16-acre virtual broadcasting facility, is equipped with listening and screening rooms; a broadcast studio with a glassed-in viewing gallery; a lecture facility and theater equipped to accommodate audio, video and PowerPoint presentations; an archive library of our broadcasts; an amphitheater that holds up to 100 people and integrates a one-of-a-kind interactive kinetic sculpture.
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LCMedia worked with Dell, Inc. to create Dell Island, which features an innovative "build it yourself" factory that allows customers to order real life Dell computers. The facility comes complete with working conference rooms, focus group facilities and a computer museum. Dell now joins the ranks of many other businesses who are establishing a virtual presence in Second Life.
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"Our Walls Bear Witness: Darfur – Who Will Survive Today?" live event in Second Life featured Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and actress, who had just returned from a trip to Darfur and who was able to provide first person accounts of the devastating situation in the area. The event reproduced the real world Darfur event that took place at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in November 2006, and featured images of the crises projected onto the exterior walls of the museum. |
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Videos of Second Life Events (click image for video) |
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Video of John Hockenberry interview of Kurt Vonnegut in Second Life (click image to play video) |
Video of Suzanne Vega performing "The Queen and the Soldier" in Second Life (click image to play video)
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Video of the making of Suzanne Vega's virtual guitar (click image to play video) |
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What can we do for you?
The only limits in Second Life are your imagination. The virtual world is available for business ventures, educational opportunities, digital creations, non-profit organizations, and much more. Our services include:
- Project consultation, design and building
- Custom avatar and site design and development
- Branding and strategic communications
- Virtual event planning, promotion and production
- Non-profit fund raising and development activities
- Education and knowledge dissemination
Contact us to find our how we can help you with your entry into the new world.
Read what the press has to say about our work:
Welcome to the Surreal World
"It’s a medium that transmits experience," said Bill Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produced a recent Suzanne Vega concert on the site. "When you have these spaces on Second Life where people perform, if it’s a small club or the back deck of a hotel at sunset, the brain processes it as that experience. And you feel it. You get that sense…that you are really there." . . .
Download PDF of Rolling Stone article
Why Savvy CEO's Hang Out in Second Life
Some of business's top guns create their own avatars to explore firsthand the potential of the online virtual marketplace
Award-winning former producer for 20/20, World News Tonight, and Nightline, Bill Lichtenstein oversaw the first ever Second Life concert series in August when his independent production company invited singer Suzanne Vega to perform and author Kurt Vonnegut to sit down for an interview -- in avatar form. Continue reading..,
Hear the Music, Avoid the Moshpit
With the help of some programmers, Vega created a 3D animated image of herself, called an avatar, and she recently performed inside a world accessible only through a Web site, where other people represented by avatars attended the concert, streamed live to computers all over the globe.
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