Try to grok the meta-ness of this scene:

I’m at a Netsquared Conference panel in San Jose. Four panelists are at the head of the room. They’re talking about how non-profits are doing community-building and program events in Second Life, the popular virtual world.

Each of those panelists’ avatars are sitting at a similar table in a similar panel room in Second Life. We in San Jose are watching that virtual panel taking place on a projection screen behind the real-life panelists.

But making it even more meta, the video of our real-life panel is being streamed live into Second Life and projected onto a virtual screen behind the avatars.

So we’re watching them, watching us, watching them. Or is it the other way around?

This quick video I shot of the scene might help: