I found this part particularly funny:
At a virtual panel discussion moderated by Uribe and Cabra, an avatar stretched and yawned. “The speaker said, “Am I boring you?’‚” Uribe said.
“And apologies were exchanged all around,” Cabra added.
IRL, a yawn might be a largely instinctual act -- not heavily controlled, you might try to hide it. That someone deliberately had their avatar yawn, well ...
Funny!
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I'm still trying to figure out what the advantage of SL (or any virtual world) has over Web conferencing. Thinking back to our CA/DA class I can't imagine being any more immersed than I was in that synchronous class. And if I were talking in a synchronous virtual world event and someone virtually yawned then I might need to virtually slap them. ;)
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