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November 3, 2009 1:10 PM

Virtual Reality for the Real World

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

Colleague Anne Haywood (in Austin, Texas) and I (at NatGeo headquarters in Washington, D.C.) got together virtually last week to discuss the ways National Geographic is using new media to inspire people to care about the planet—and to help them understand it. We gave our presentation—or, at least, our avatars did—at the New Media Consortium’s Symposium for the Future in Second Life, an immersive, 3-D virtual world.

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