Webcam-like functionality in Second Life
Live photoblogging from Second Life! Cristiano Midnight recently unveiled a cool feature on his site that takes advantage of the client’s ‘Postcard’ function, which lets you send in-world screenshots to people via e-mail. With Midnight’s Snapzilla, you can e-mail such postcards directly to his site. For visitors, this means a near-real time visual document of Second Life as it’s lived. The potential for photoblogging (screenblogging?) is pretty obvious. In fact, I recently came across a whimsical visual update of the story I wrote here, and a picture really is worth the proverbial thousand words I’d otherwise blog about it. In the near future, I’d like to use a feature like this to re-do my ‘Day in the life of Second Life‘. (After I get a good night’s sleep, that is.)
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(Via New World Notes.)
Very cool stuff. Maybe a good way to get people to check it out without having to log in. I wonder if there’s a way to set up a “web cam” in second life using this kind of tech? I guess you still need to be there to have the cam on. Well, still really interesting. Maybe a cool way to show my wife or my dad something in SL… I could just go there and turn on a cam, and then point the other person to the SLCam url. Very interesting. Oooh, yeah, I played around with this a little bit when I was absorbed by SL at the beginning of my experience. Maybe I could figure that out now that I’m a bit more experienced with low level mail processing.
