A couple of months ago, Amanda did an interview inside the VR world
called Second LIfe:
http://secondlife.com/

She created an avatar, flew around inside the engine and met other
people in a 3D chat lecture hall to give a speech.

About a month ago, I downloaded the application and jumped in and I
feel like this is the perhaps the most profound thing I have ever
come across in my life.

In terms of videoblogging, the potential is absolutely, incredibly,
super daunting, perhaps because within this virtual world, you
transcend locational bounderies now restricted by time and money. To
add a layer of photo realism would be the end all.

I cant tell you enough how much I recommend checking this out. I feel
like I have seen aliens from another world and they are me, it feels
so real.

We are looking for a correspondent from Second Life for Rocketboom so
if anyone is into this or happens to get really hard core into this,
let me know. Its one of those things you could live your entire life by.

The thing that I think makes this so impressive, is the feeling that
it is really me inside there.

For some reason, my avatar flying around in there looks just real
enough to allow me to get sucked into to the reality of it, much like
getting sucked into a film, only in this case its actually me that is
the character.

They just made it free too:
http://secondlife.com/