Second Life Is All About Sex
Writing by Green Guy on Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 4:42 am
Hard to believe - but true!
by Onder Skall
Linden Labs recently hosted a party at the GDC because, as we all know, Second Life is in dire need of new residents and just doesn’t get enough press. Drawn in by the offer of free food and booze, the press was notified that Linden Lab has licensed Philips’ amBX technology to produce a dedicated amBX-enabled environment. This would be used for integrating peripherals that emit light, jets of air, and vibration.
Now, let’s face facts: the grid is laggy, crash-tastic and overcrowded. This leaves us with two questions: 1) What possible application could devices like these have when, thus far, they have mostly been applied to action video games? 2) What is so compelling that would we want to toy with yet another feature nobody has requested when the ones we have (like flying and teleporting) barely work at all? A group named Computational Dildo Liberation Army (CDLA) has the answer!
Right after GDC came SXSW, and Linden Labs was there in a flash. Among panels held there involving… well… a bunch of things SL residents already know about, there were a few standouts. There were some typical corporate hugfests like ” Unleashing CSS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Explorer 7″, where we learned to create websites that can’t be viewed without the latest Microsoft browser, and “Why We Should Ignore Users” where we learned to give users things to do instead of tools to do what they want. Of course, what’s a virtual worlds fest without at least one discussion of teledildonics!
The Register reported yesterday on the Sex and Computational Technology lecture where the sad state of sex with machines was discussed in-depth by the CDLA:
“It’s like trying to fuck your printer driver,” said Kyle Machulis, a teledildonics expert, employee of Linden Lab, and editor of Slashdong.org, about the state of computerized dildos’ software interfaces.
Well, if Linden Labs is going to pursue yet another technology nobody is asking for instead of working on grid stability, it might as well be in the name of sex. Here’s hoping the peripherals developed don’t short out when the grid crashes.
The most important news: apparently Linden Labs employs a teledildonics expert. [only one? how are the batteries holding up? -the Editrix]
Onder Skall also writes for Second Life Games
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