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What if Avatars Were Real?

What would it look like if your Second Life were more like your first? DRAFTFCB, an advertising agency with offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, decided to make a video of real people living life as avatars do, and anyone who spends any time in virtual worlds will get a real kick out of it:

The video pokes fun at avatar behavior in Second Life specifically, but the particular conventions and animations being emulated are common to most 3D virtual worlds these days, and demonstrates that perhaps online society has a bit more growing to do before it behaves more like ours!

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