The Social Networking Girl

With the launch of Sun’s Project Wonderland toolkit, and my recent trip to Boston for the Digital Media Summit on Immersive Education, I’m realizing that my avatar is going to need a way to move easily between virtual environments - she needs a passport.

There’s been discussion of this recently - of ways to allow your avatar and identity to move with you through the different virtual environments and I for one, applaud this. Micala should be able to live in SL or WoW, or Kaneva, or There, or Project Wonderland, or wherever else she wants to be. Just like I have a specific email address, I should have a specific “passport” ID that allows me portability between these worlds.

There are a lot of VW’s out there now.. and it’s really just “getting started”. Think about what we’ll have in five or ten years. I fully believe that there will never be “ONE” virtual world that we all log into to do every single thing we need to do online, so we need ways to move around easily.

Plus my avatar’s passport photo would look a MILLION times better than my real passport photos have *ever* looked.