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Second Life Augmented Reality
Second Life Augmented Reality Project (SLAR) SLAR explores the practical and theoretical issues for Performance Studies posed by new genres of performance in virtual environments, such as Second Life. In the past year, the Augmented Environments Lab (AEL) and the Wesley Center for New Media at Georgia Tech have developed technological modifications to Second Life that facilitate a new form of mediated performance, one in which actors and audience share a performance space that is both physical and virtual. In the project’s initial phase of development, we concentrated on exploring the environment’s expressive potential. Drawing on the talents of a diverse group of improv actors and our new technology, in our second year we will develop and test a set of questions that derive from our theoretical premises. Our strategy will vary the configuration of the technology as well as the structure or prompts of the actors in order to pose these questions. arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu
