tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post6128213819364012355..comments2023-09-28T07:23:51.376-07:00Comments on ProjectPerko: "Reality"Craig Perkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13173752470581218239noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-9117458098368743762009-07-29T16:51:18.473-07:002009-07-29T16:51:18.473-07:00Haha, I guess that's why your on my reading li...Haha, I guess that's why your on my reading list: representative from the future.Ellipsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13554930621825481241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-38409866012903178292009-07-29T16:45:22.033-07:002009-07-29T16:45:22.033-07:00Do I ever talk about anything else?Do I ever talk about anything else?Craig Perkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173752470581218239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-78409693142034827862009-07-29T15:33:55.144-07:002009-07-29T15:33:55.144-07:00Well, if you had an avatar service as ubiquitous a...Well, if you had an avatar service as ubiquitous as something like facebook...and I know a lot of people that would really like to be that service, but I'm not sure if anyone's yet offered something that quite cuts it.<br /><br />But I guess we're talking about the future, aren't we?Ellipsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13554930621825481241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-73463068652792713902009-07-29T15:26:00.813-07:002009-07-29T15:26:00.813-07:00Perhaps, but now that I'm thinking about it, i...Perhaps, but now that I'm thinking about it, it seems more likely than that. Once it's easy to puppet our avatars, how long until machinima becomes a standard?<br /><br />Once that happens, the game becomes a platform for making non game-related stuff.<br /><br />Cooking is unlikely: it's anchored in real meats and eggs and so on. But I can see most of the other kinds of shows I'm familiar with done in-game.Craig Perkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173752470581218239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-16409665350066661552009-07-29T09:39:25.080-07:002009-07-29T09:39:25.080-07:00I suppose that ultimately depends on which MMO we&...I suppose that ultimately depends on which MMO we're talking about. Second Life (and maybe its clones) might be the only MMO both open-ended enough and big enough to see these kinds of avatars emerge so far. <br /><br />It's a little harder to imagine a lawyer/cook avatar in a game-oriented world unless it has some relationship to gameplay or the law/cooking is directly represented in the game. Preachers, however, are not that hard to imagine in any setting.<br /><br />In any case, specialty avatars will be a bit of a niche until the difference between game-oriented and social-oriented worlds blurs a bit more, I think.Ellipsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13554930621825481241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-1582351686952563972009-07-29T06:43:00.220-07:002009-07-29T06:43:00.220-07:00Well, I'm more interested in the idea of avata...Well, I'm more interested in the idea of avatars being co-opted for non-gameplay jobs that might have a reflection in real-world jobs. A crude example are the "runner" avatars used to transfer goods to real-dollar buyers. The runners rarely have any in-game existence: they exist solely to do their job. This is sort of like a pony express courier, I guess. <br /><br />Will we see avatars designed to practice law, even when there are no in-game laws to defend? Will we see avatars specifically to sell out-of-game goods to in-game players (like real-world kitchen sets or something)? Will we see avatars specifically chosen to spread the religion-du-jour - I know there are many religious players, but will we see players who are only there to preach?<br /><br />I'm sure that these already exist, at least to some extent, but I'm not a hardcore player of MMOGs, so I can't verify it.Craig Perkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173752470581218239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-91664852584403941062009-07-28T20:56:26.736-07:002009-07-28T20:56:26.736-07:00While this is the first concrete example I can thi...While this is the first concrete example I can think of, to be honest I kind of assumed this would be going on. I mean, if people invest in their avatars as a representation of themselves, then appearance matters enough for this kind of thing to become necessary.<br /><br />What it really indicates is that we should have given up long ago on the idea that photos are little chunks of reality and not just a new tool for creating imaginary spaces (that happen to bear a relationship to real spaces, sometimes).Ellipsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13554930621825481241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-75691857521638720822009-07-28T17:26:16.556-07:002009-07-28T17:26:16.556-07:00Well, it would require some pretty heavy processin...Well, it would require some pretty heavy processing, but it's possible.Craig Perkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173752470581218239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11758224.post-42664772096940286972009-07-28T17:16:23.065-07:002009-07-28T17:16:23.065-07:00doesn't seem far off that someone can make a g...doesn't seem far off that someone can make a glamor to photoshop everything a person sees, in real time.brackish meadowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07006701742406299244noreply@blogger.com