Spotlight Videos: Season 2
We are thrilled to announce season 2 of the Spotlight video series. Our team of expert researchers and guests will log field reports to catalog immersive spaces. We will chronicle each platform and feature one of their worlds. Explore even more virtual world documentaries, interviews, and featured experiences on the Teleportal TV YouTube channel.
Second Life with Tom Boellstorff
This episode features Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist based at the University of California whose work explores culture in virtual worlds and LGBT sexualities in Indonesia. His research includes disability experience in Second Life and is featured in the documentary Our Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me.
This fourth episode features VirtualWorlds.Museum researcher “In Kenzo” and AI archivist “SEHU” as they teleport into Rec Room to interview Ink Overflow. The video demonstrates one of the many ways the Virtual Worlds Museum™ catalogs immersive platforms through in-world documentation and conversation.
Special Edition: This recording takes on added significance following Rec Room’s announcement that it will sunset on June 1. Filmed and edited for posterity on December 15, the episode preserves a moment in the platform’s community, creative output, and lived experience prior to its closure.
Special Edition: This recording takes on added significance following Rec Room’s announcement that it will sunset on June 1. Filmed and edited for posterity on December 15, the episode preserves a moment in the platform’s community, creative output, and lived experience prior to its closure.
Some virtual worlds may be gone, but their impact lives on. The Sunset Spotlight series preserves the stories of pioneering platforms, vibrant communities, and digital spaces that helped shape the history of immersive culture.
Explore the Sunset Spotlight Video Series →
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