RL places that 'feel' SL

maybe I'm just losing my mind but I had massive vuja-de for SL at the Newark NJ airport yesterday. The big glass elevators on the parking deck made me feel like that smooth drop down and land your avatar can do and the air train (automatic elevated electric train) made me feel like I was flying over someone's airport build.

have any of you experienced places where you feel as if you were your avatar?

yes many. man many times and many diffrent places.

OK, Hon. You are scaring me. IF SL even comes NEAR resembling Newark, I'm gone. So fast you will see skid marks.

The Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop.
Any cheesy strip club.

You know its bad when...

you look at a rl object and wonder how many prims it consists of.

Any Shopping Mall

I expect to see a noob with his thing out... and people trying on clothes with 'DEMO' written on them. Havent yet though... kinda disappointing...

Imogen

I was flying home last night (in an airplane) and looking down at the midwest cut into sims. Then we flew into the clouds and it was just like the cloud layer in SL.

The two worlds are merging more and more for me every day. I was actually returning from a private family island in RL! And couldn't wait to hang out in my beach house in SL!

Obviously I'm not the only one with this affliction. I got addicted to SL over a three day weekend, and during that time was in-world almost constantly. On the first day after, I was standing at the commuter train station and looking around at all the AVs.

My RLer sometimes dreams of having a sky platform above the house and garden. My first build when I came to SL was a garden shed based on that belonging to my RL agent!

I wonder if SL will actually begin to influence RL builds and products in the way that small mobile phones used on Star Trek influenced the design of real mobiles a decade or more later.

One way SL could influence RL is in dance steps - I can imagine RLers at meet-ups hoofing away on dancepads and doing the SL standard walk as they navigate the venue. Actually most RLers would probably be happy to sit in camp chairs, I'd guess.

Good thing you didn't hit State Boundry or a Full County.

Bangkok.

People building stuff, tearing it down, building again. Lots of half built stuff left empty. Giant advertising hoardings. A huge 3-headed elephant.......And lots of the prettiest girls are really guys.

NO - nothing in RL reminds me of SL. RL graphics are light years beyond anything I've seen in SL - and it's got that dirty smelly entropy plug in activated too. Leaves little to the imagination. That's why I like SL. -- KC

You mean we're not suppose to do that?

Yes, but breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel, and maybe tea at the Oriental later makes it soooo different and real - I'd take Bangkok over SL any day!

Though, I'd do without the smell of the river and the oppressive heat...

I believe Alyx (Sands) already mentioned this somewhere on this forum, but then again ...

Well, a few months ago, we were at an Ikea furniture market. There, I saw a large sofa with a very small, round, blue cushion on it. I pointed at the cushion and said: "Look! A poseball!" - which was exactly what it looked like ...

I can confirm that... RL shopping malls remind me a lot of SL. Only the avatars are uglier

Buildings? Not really. But once I saw two perfect cubes made of stone to block cars from entering a narrow road. They were also the right size and covered in wood. Too bad I didnt have a camera with me. I could have taken a shot of me staring at them and pointing with my left hand! Or sitting on it

No Desmond. I'd take breakfast at a khao tom stall on Ratchada. That's REAL!

Oh god yes! Wind up with my hair and shoes where the sun doesn't shine....hmm, kinda glad RL isn't like SL!

Whenever I see an intersting or attractive looking person, I find myself thinking that they would make a great avatar.

I'm still wondering whats going to happen when our township crashes.

Will the USA have to do a rolling restart after the next presidential election?

The lag around here seems to be getting steadily worse, especially first thing in the morning, right after I get up. LOL

I was at a club a few weekends ago. It'd been awhile and I needed to dance. Found myself looking for the contest board.

Same club, different city..and looking for Slow Dance v3.

I needed a little fold up table and just slightly my right hand was like "cmon i can do it, right?"

ugh the prim count in my room is waaay too high

if i could have one thing from sl, id want my twitching kitty ears, not even the tail just ears please pweeze anisa make rl kitty ears hehehe

There's this very strange arch-thing in Hillsboro on the way into work from where I live, and when I look at it, it reminds me of something someone might make in Second Life.