House Telecom & Internet Hearing Gets Second Life
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/31/2008 8:00:00 AM MT
The House Telecommunications & Internet subcommittee Monday said its hearing Tuesday on the use of avatars in user-generated online worlds like Second Life will, itself, be recreated real time in Second Life.
The office of Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) billed it as "the first ever Congressional hearing simulcast in an Internet-based virtual world to address the evolution."
The Subcommittee in an e-mail said that "reporters with avatars" who wish to cover the hearing in the virtual world should contact the committee.
Markey has previously posted video from a hearing on YouTube and used an avatar himself to make a speech when he couldn't attend a meeting in Bali.
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I'm glad Rep. Markey is using taking the risk to pioneer the use of this technology as he has....
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