Out at lunchtime today doing more metaverse evangelism. The same academics from the computing department as last time round. (The third is in China lucky thing!) Once again I took a projector with me so as well as the main screen we had a side screen showing my viewpoint of the mini-tour. Worked well - though I wish I could get my laptop to display both on its screen and the projector screen simultaneously - there must be something I need to tweak.

Anyway this time it was to the IT crowd. Bit scary. Aren't they supposed to 'know' about these things? I was expecting to be somewhat out of my depth with technical questions and the like but it turns out I wasn't. In fact, somewhat surprisingly/depressingly/pleasingly I was able to contribute and respond and sound as if I knew what I was talking about. Indeed the scariness didn't come from the difficulty of the questions, it came more from the left field nature of the questions. Aren't these people supposed to be responsible for our IT systems and have a bit of computing knowledge if not actual geekiness? One of the questions, for example, was why students might want to use SL instead of Facebook. Then again I managed to get words like 'asynchronous' into the answer which is always going to sound good.

Gary
Metaverse Evangelist