Second Life Tours - Splo Island - An In-world Version of San Francisco’s Exploratorium
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser, and this Alice In Wonderland feeling isn’t going away anytime soon.
Last weekend I had what has to be my coolest in-world experience ever.
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San Francisco’s Exploratorium is a must-see for visitors and a staple of life for those of us who grew up in the SF Bay Area. Now there are a series of Second Life Islands constituting an in-world Exploratorium, and I was lucky enough to spend an evening with the curator a few nights ago.
In this clip, Splo Curator Patio Plasma shows me one of the exhibits. This exhibit is typical of the great optical illusion exhibits of the Exploratorium in meatspace.
Patio Plasma Helps Me “Ride the Exhibit” On Splo Island
When the picture is upside down, and the person watching it is standing up, the expression looks pleasant. But when a watcher is upside down like the photograph, something a very different expression is perceived.
When I’m right side up/Picture is upside down
When both the picture and I are upside down
Robert J. Rothfarb and Paul Doherty have written a paper that explains some of the thinking behind Splo Island, and its brethren islands:
Creating Museum Content and Community in Second Life. The team presented it at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference earlier this year.
There’s also a wiki and another page of great links that Paul Donahue put together where you can learn more.
Me and Patio Plasma in the Splo Island Museum
Long shot of the Splo Island Museum
Looking At Patio Plasma While I’m Upside Down In The Chair
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