[sldev] Portable Avs

[John Hurliman]

sbg at acw.com wrote:
> Now that SL has introduced the world to concept of a personal avatar (as
> opposed to being an orc or warlock), what is the general view of being
> able to have one av that I take into various worlds; SL to Sims Online to
> Entropia, etc?
>
> I'm not suggesting that accounts span virtual worlds, only that my pixel
> representation be able to move from world to world.
>
> In that vein, imagine that there was a business of creating avs for
> people.  Imagine further that this business could create a portable av
> actually looked like me:
>
> https://www.nextengine.com
>
> If there was a portable me wouldn't I be willing to invest more in that av
> than the sum of what I invest in all my world-specific avs?
>
> Cheers, Scott
>
>   

I just got done reading Edward Castranova's paper "Theory of the 
Avatar", you might enjoy it: 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=385103

As far as 3D scanners, I'm not familiar with any online worlds that 
accept mesh formats for avatars?

John Hurliman