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Originally Posted by Greg
I would not be surprised if in some future iteration you were able to sit down with friends and watch the Shuttle launch together!
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Other than the issue of getting the feed into Second Life, you can already do that. The NASA CoLab area has a lecture theater, I've attended a couple of multimedia presentations there. These links are a bit old, but they should land you in the vicinity:
NASA CoLab
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/244/111/23
NASA CoLab Oregon L5 Project
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/55/207/25
Oregon L5 lava tube simulation
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/29/175/29
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Originally Posted by Greg
When I last looked at Second Life, it looked like fun but the low resolution graphics sort of discouraged me from fooling around with it.
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Your new machine should be able to do a better job on the graphics. The graphics card, cpu speed and RAM probably have more to do with the graphics quality than the bandwidth.
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Originally Posted by Greg
Amazingly, the reason I looked at it was because Scotty and I were working on a 3D chat environment. We never got it developed, though.
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I think you could buy server space for your own world. They come in different shapes and sizes I believe.