{"id":741,"date":"2006-01-06T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=741"},"modified":"2006-01-06T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T08:01:00","slug":"bbc-news-programmes-newsnight-do-avatars-dream-of-electric-racoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/bbc-news-programmes-newsnight-do-avatars-dream-of-electric-racoons\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Do avatars dream of electric racoons?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight journalist inside ‘Second Life’ chatting with Nolligan last night.<\/p>\n

From the page: “Do avatars dream of electric racoons?
\nAs part of Newsnight’s Geek Week, business correspondent Paul Mason and presenter Jeremy Paxman broadcast TV’s first ever face-to-face studio session from inside the computer game Second Life.<\/p>\n

Here, Paul comes face to face with the designer who made it happen.”<\/p>\n

… I said to Newsnight’s real life editor Peter Barron, “why don’t we broadcast Newsnight from inside a computer game.”<\/p>\n

I got in touch with Cory Edo – real name Sara Van Gorden – who runs a business in Second Life designing avatars – the idealised 3D personas that people use as their online identities.<\/p>\n

Cory recreated the Newsnight set, Jeremy Paxman and myself – the latter with wrinkles and stubble rendered in full 3D realism, sadly – so we could record the historic “two-way” that will go out before my piece on online games.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Paul and the Newsnight team here:
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