Oakzilla Treehouse is still looking very basic. The owner of Picklefish, Mossflower Schumann, kindly removed some of the furnishings at my request, so now there is more space inside to add a presentation board and other tools. I have purchased a large corner sofa, and a beautifully sculpted teaset (designed by Robin Sojourner Wood), which offers many varieties of tea to thirsty visitors.
This object sums up what I like and loathe about SL. The creativity and attention to detail is second to none, and the teaset looks divine. Interacting with it is a different matter. The user clicks on the teatray, the teapot steams realistically, the cups fill up. Then the user must go to Inventory to ‘wear’ a cup and saucer given by the teaset. And then click the teatray again to choose the variety of tea from a popup menu. I think there is still a long way to go before SL delivers the kind of simple interactivity we have all come to expect of our technology, but in the meantime I’ll enjoy looking at lovely sculpted accessories like this!
In other news, Wheeler has undergone a slight change of appearance. One respect in which SL beats RL hands down is that the more time you spend here, the better you look.
I seem to have deviated off on a “teapots and haircut” line of enquiry. I hope to have something more relevant to my teaching quest to blog of next time…..
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