With a focus on art – not on technique skills in SL – our work have been succesful in RL, at the museum. Visitors have clearly been affected by the art institution, and most people was scared to even touch the computers (normally you’re not allowed to touch anything at all in a place like SMK). I believe our presence at the museum have been succesful, not only in showing the visitors how to use the avatars, but also because all of us have had some really interesting conversations, about the project, with very different individuals.

The question is: Would it have been better, if the realityHUBs was a group of two art students and two of Sophie Zhu’s kind?

However, she was really impressed about seeing the avatars on such big screens and wanted to log in with her own “alt”(er ego). “Your avatar is SO ugly”, she told me, “here’s my card, call me if you need any help with designing clothes, skin and lovely hair”. Feeling a bit embarrased – I’m the one who’s supposed to guide the visitors in RL – she logged in with her avatar, a very foxy girl with long legs, curly blonde hair and huge red lips. Watching this elderly woman standing in RL using her young avatar, I guess one of my prejudices against SL was comfirmed. On the other hand – and why not?