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18 Mar 2007
SL and MicroContent
Bryan Alexander wonders about the combination between Second Life and MicroContent. I like to generalise this. Personally I do not like SL very much. I get lost in it and it seems a time waster for me. But then the web was that initially as well. And there are probably other worlds you could look at as well. I think I will be intrigued by Home on the PS3. I did see a nice combination between that world and MicroContent. In the video I saw you could combine a 3D TV (thinks SL) and show a video on it. The same thing could be done with images and picture frames in that world. You did have to import the images and video into that world through your personal PS3. And it is easy extend that to other kinds of MicroContent.
You should see these worlds (and the web) as canvasses in which you can mash MicroContent. The MicroContent Items can be seen as a bottom layer. These are the atoms from which other things can be built. One such canvasses is RSS, the other the web and yet another can be SL. It all depends how open these canvasses are to the artists. By now the web is pretty open, RSS is OK, but SL seems pretty closed. SL seems to be only for a few specialists. And naturally there are canvasses where the situation is even worse, i.e. totally closed.
So the question when SL will be open to MicroContent should be asked to the canvas builders. You can wonder by the way whether you would like to place such a canvas into the hands of just one party. Fortunately SL went open source, so we might see new developments in the future.