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A '''virtual chapel''' is an Orthodox edifice built in virtual reality. | A '''virtual chapel''' is an Orthodox edifice built in virtual reality. |
Revision as of 21:39, May 10, 2007
A virtual chapel is an Orthodox edifice built in virtual reality.
It appears that the first virtual Orthodox chapel was built in Second Life. In a post on September 3, 2006, Todd Michael ("OrthoCelt") states:
- "I have managed to find another Orthodox online, who built a small Eastern Rite chapel. So to mix things up, I build a rather large Western Rite chapel for Raphael on the property he owns (also seen in the photo), with Ancient Faith Radio being piped in for background music."[1]
Other references:
- http://michael.doxos.com/comments.php?id=3980_0_6_0_C (Evangelism in Second Life)
- http://raphael.doxos.com/index.php?id=C0_64_1 (general Second Life category).
- http://tarasbalderdash.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-home-for-order-and-its-chapel.html (includes mention of a Slavonic psalter and "Orthodox Christian gestures"
External Links
- St. Nicholas Avatarian Orthodox Church in Second Life (direct SLurl teleport link)
- w:Second Life
- Edward Castronove, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (U of Chicago Press, 2006) ISBN 0226096270
- Wired News: Second Life Teaches Life Lessons
- St.Nicholas Virtual Church
- Virtual chapel at GOARCH.org