Cano Cristales: After talking with your new avatar friend, switching between both voice & type chat, you head to look at the virtual Harbin Temple

Harbin ethnography:

... talk with an avatar you meet on the sun deck in virtual Harbin.

After talking with your new avatar friend on the virtual Harbin sun deck, switching between both voice and type chat, you decide to go look at the virtual Harbin Temple, so you click the “Fly” button on your Second Life screen interface, fly up, use your arrow keys to aim for the heart shaped pools 30 meters away, and soar out over the Harbin Main Side Area. Flying over the red roofes of the virtual Harbin guest buildings, over Stonefront lodge, and over the garden to the strawbale Temple, built in 2005 at actual Harbin by Sunray, and in 2010 by Harbin residents on virtual Harbin in Second Life. These Second Life “builds” are based on virtual islands called simulations, which continue to exist on Linden Lab servers even after you turn your own computer off. For a group of people's builds to remain, Linden Lab sells virtual land, typically four 264 square meter simulations together (around 528 x 528), which are stored on Linden servers and always accessible by avatars from around the world.

You fly down to the virtual Harbin temple with your new avatar friend …















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/cano-cristales-after-talking-with-your.html - March 23, 2010)