thank you for your comment

There is a lot of buzz around SL as a virtual business environment - I really think that it has moved up the left hand side of the adoption curve from innovator well and truly into early adopter land. I’m working on an electronic meeting concept for a client at the moment and demo’ed SL to the Design lead and one of the senior BAs yesterday. SL has started to replace commercial telepresence systems in board rooms.

I’m still looking into the clothing thing - I love that moment when the avatar appears and there is a little network lag and you see the “downloading clothes” thing - I can’t wait to see that happen in a virtual board meeting

It is a natural identification of avatar-as-self. It doesn’t help that I named my avatar Andrew Boyd - I thought I should snap it up before one of the other Andrews got in first.

Being brilliant and a gifted designer, have you ever thought about doing some SL corporate design work? The building blocks and coding are there for all to use (just like the web, in that respect) but there is a need for someone to design the SL universe - at the moment SL corporate design is mostly the equivalent of “my nephew knows how to use FrontPage, he is doing the new corporate site” or “we don’t know what the heck we’re doing, if we spend a million bucks on it, it has to look good”

Cheers, Andrew

I got on to SL only a couple of weeks ago for a look because someone asked if were interested in doing 3D stuff on SL.

After running around the practice island for a bit. I decided I was tired of the silly default fox/cat costume. But I could not work out immediately how to create/swap clothing - everything seemed greyed out except Remove All Clothing. So I did. Thinking that might ungrey the other clothing related commands.

There I was, starkers in the middle of the street. And someone came and stood right next to me and just looked. It was so weird. I even had a brief moment of panic, just like in one of those dreams where you go out in your pajamas or naked.

I thought it was interesting how quickly I identified with the generic avatar as “me”, and how unconscious the process was.

Yes, I eventually worked out how to make clothes.