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An experiment with the concept of merging the Second Life universe with what we have come to accept as "Real Life."

Angela Black, Atom Leonhart, Garrett Sneen, Eric Ellorin, and Brett Stalbaum

Digichotomy is a mobile performance experimenting with the idea of connecting and merging the "real" world with virtual reality.

To perform Digichotomy, professional audio transmission equipment is worn by a mobile performer to broadcast the environmental sounds and voice chat conversations of Second Life into "Real Life," (known to the Second Life universe as "First Life"), and in turn broadcast the sounds and conversation of First Life back into Second Life. This enables real-time conversation between the worlds via the human interface of the mobile performer.

On top of that, the performer carries a mobile phone programmed in J2ME to send live GPS data to a server which is then passed into Second Life. This data is used to control the movement of a Second Life vehicle, and keep the avatars on board in sync with the movements of the performer in real life.

Digichotomy is an open source project and welcomes collaborations, hacks, tweaks, and all other forms of experimentation.

More information and source code available at:
www.digichotomy.com