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Title: Virtual Gender: Q&A with Jamison Green
Post by: Natasha on August 30, 2009, 09:39:21 AM
Virtual Gender: Q&A with Jamison Green

http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/08/virtual-gender-qa-with-jamison-green/ (http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/08/virtual-gender-qa-with-jamison-green/)
8/29/09

Ever more frequently, companies looking to save money are moving meetings and training into virtual environments such as Second Life, OpenSim, Forterra, and Qwac.

In some cases, the company fully controls the environment, creating avatars and user names for their employees. In other environments, it's all up to the employees.  In those, the avatars that employees pick can be fantastical, mythical — or gender-bending.