Video: Carbon Goggles show you your carbon footprint: virtually

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:12:58 -0700

The Pop!Tech Blog alerts us to a cool, new feature available to Second Life users: Carbon Goggles. Second Life developer Jim Purbrick (known in-world as Babbage Linden) has created a project that uses the carbon counting service AMEE to let users view the carbon footprint of items they may use every day. When wearing the virtual goggles, Second Life users can determine the carbon footprint of an everyday item by looking at its virtual counterpart in Second Life.

In the video below, Purbrick demonstrates an early version of the tool, viewing an array of items in front of his avatar. He is slowly adding CO2 data for more in-world items, and I was able to check out the carbon footprint of many Scion models by visiting their Second Life location. The project was built during a hack session at Mashed 08.

Carbon Goggles from Jim Purbrick on Vimeo.

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