Friday, April 2, 2010

Germany


This was interesting, I can speak a little German so I wanted to make one of my locations somewhere in Germany in hopes to strike up a conversation with another avatar here in German. I arrived here and flew around. I found someone walking and approached them. I spoke to them in German and they just said "Hi" in English and walked off. Hahaha, guess most Germans don't find it exciting to visit obscure German places when they already see them as often as they wish in real life.

Eiffel Tower



It seems Senait and I chose one of the same locations as each other, I find that interesting. Of all the places to choose, we both choose this as one of our locations. As for my experience, once again, do not like the way the screen loads up or the camera angles, but it was pretty neat seeing the Eiffel Tower.

Group Meeting

This was a great challenge, it seems within 2nd Life, on my computer at least, that the surroundings take a lot of time to load up and develop. It mostly looks like colorless pixels most of the time while attempting to fly or walk around an area you have chosen to be in. For me and Senait, it took nearly 15 minutes to find each other when we were practically right next to each other in the location we chose to meet in (Saudi Arabia). It was not an enjoyable experience for me, more frustrating than anything else. I wish the product was more developed to make it easier for people to meet each other or at least more user friendly because I am sure there has to be a way much easier than what Senait and I went through to meet for this project.