Earlier this week there was some good feedback on the video interview I gave to Beet.tv about Second Life. I talked about the virtual world as a place where people go to escape, but there's more. Second Life is about realism too. Thanks to Clickable Culture for teaching this to me. You're dead on and that's why I like this program.
Starwood Hotels is adding a dose of realism to the virtual world. But they're doing more. They are giving people a chance to experience something that doesn't exist in the physical world yet. This adds tremendous value to the experience. My only advice to them is to use it as a simulation exercise to get feedback from the Second Life community that makes the real hotels better when they launch in 2008.
Tags: starwoodhotels, secondlife
