Perhaps if someone is curious enough to dance in virtual reality then they might be curious enough to try it in real life. I guess the challenge is to get them to step away from their computer. Uummm, I'll step away in just another minute...
Donna Hunt "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance." -unknown In a message dated 9/19/2011 5:36:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Chip Hedler wrote: > (Bizarre aside: anyone remember Second Life? Wouldn't it be cool if you > could program avatars to do dance moves and have a virtual contra dance, or > test dance sequences? Actually, forget that! It's totally against what I > value about real dancing! ) I sent the following e-mail to the MWSD caller's list on April 1, 2010... Begin forwarded message: > From: Clark Baker <[email protected]> > Date: April 1, 2010 12:37:41 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Square Dancing in Second Life > > With the box office success of Avatar, you may be interested in my experiences taking square dancing to Second Life. In this virtual world, users (residents) can interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world. > > Second Life has an internal currency, the Linden dollar (L$). L$ can be used to buy, sell, rent or trade land or goods and services with other users. L$ can be purchased using US Dollars and other currencies on the LindeX exchange provided by Linden Lab, independent brokers or other resident users. > > I put two and two together and created a square dance hall and offer square dance lessons. People pay in L$ but I have made enough to make more teaching dancing in Second Life than at some dances in the real world! I know that some of you are going to say that teaching square dancing in virtual reality doesn't count, and that the computer users should meet and interact with real people. However, I believe that they are square dancing, and any kind of square dancing is better than nothing. > > Let us know what you think. -- Clark Baker, Belmont, MA [email protected] _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
