The Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a series of short podcasts exploring the undergraduate university module “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough”. The class, developed by the Second Life academic Acuppa Tae (John O’Connor) in 2009, has been offered continuously since then by Technological University Dublin in Ireland; and is delivered entirely online in this virtual world. Each episode concentrates on a different theme from the module and considers the impact on students. The podcast is a conversation generated by Google NotebookLM based on the website www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com. It is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.
The Deep Dive
Virtual Identities
The second episode of The Deep Dive podcast explores virtual identities and the philosophical nature of self. The guest speakers on the module share the nature of their avatar’s identities while exploring how identification with online presence can influence real life personalities in the ‘natural world’. The conversation, generated by Google NotebookLM from content on www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com, is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.