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Virtual politics: Congress takes plunge into world of avatars
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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February 4, 2007
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - When Rep. George Miller is "in-world," he
teleports between continents and flies into the room.
"And I have a waistline!" Miller joked.
That would be his "avatar," a virtual rendition of the California
congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional online world in which
people, represented by their avatars, live out their every virtual
fantasy.
With the help of Berkeley, Calif.-based Clear Ink, Miller brought
the Capitol into Second Life for the first time, unveiling "Capitol
Hill Island" during the swearing-in ceremony for House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi in Washington on Jan. 4.
Next, the Democratic leader says he will recruit other members of
Congress into Second Life, ...
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