Though Stephenson took a shortcut for the major public areas by making people out on the Street able to just pass through each other transparently. Only inside the nodes could you actually interact.
I'm curious to see what Second Life is like, since people can make their own gestures but usually have a battery of pre-programmed ones.
In some sense, without the posed interactions and such, I still imagine anyone in a muck room as standing around looking in random directions. There's nothing but a name-placeholder, so the default is usually assumed unless told otherwise.
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Date: 2005-03-15 11:25 am (UTC)I'm curious to see what Second Life is like, since people can make their own gestures but usually have a battery of pre-programmed ones.
In some sense, without the posed interactions and such, I still imagine anyone in a muck room as standing around looking in random directions. There's nothing but a name-placeholder, so the default is usually assumed unless told otherwise.