My observation was that I found that at first there was a lag of time for the others to approach me. What felt like 10 mins but was probably 1 min that had passed before the others started to come closer.
As I was walking to find others another avatar popped up in front of me. We stood there for a while and I kept my patience to see what would happen. After about 5 mins, the avatar started to nod back and forth. I swayed back and forth to let the avatar know that I appreciate the nod then I proceeded to find no one else.
Here at Caribbean - there was plenty of dancing!
Uncomfortable! I changed avatar to green animal but others were receptive. After quite some time, one avatar was responsive with a big SMILE hanging above. I think that just by being in a Virtual World you won't be ignored no matter what your avatar looks like - I think people who choose to head to a Virtual World anticipate that others may approach you -- and socialize.
This are examples experiment when changing avatar in Second Life. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
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