By Jo Best
Published: Tuesday 10 April 2007
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Olivier Riviere
Location
Germany
Occupation
Communication
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One aspect of Second Life that is constantly overlooked is that moving your avatar remains very akward. The nice and smooth movements, including dancing, that you see in promotional videos have little in common with your own experience as "M. smith-visitor". In terms of offering a rich interaction this is a huge hinge factor. Soon, Second Life will offer its visitors, the possibility to really talk (not type!) to each others. This will surely open new possibilities, making Forums far more interesting. However the "body language" limitations will remain and this might last for a while ...
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