Tuesday, January 18, 2011
My Experience With Second Life
I created a second life account and have found it rather easy to use. There are a lot of tutorials before you can actually start exploring the islands. The tutorials took forever to accomplish. While on it I noticed that there was a lot of ads within the program. I still need to use it more to get a better understanding of things work within second life. So far though it is clear that business are using second life for advertising.
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Second Life is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab launched on June 23, 2003. Built into the software is a 3D modeling tool based around simple geometric shapes that allows a resident to build virtual objects.
ReplyDeleteAvatars may take any form that users choose such as human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or a combination. Residents may choose to resemble themselves as they are in real life or they may choose even more abstract forms given that almost every aspect of an avatar is fully customizable.
Second Life has an internal currency, the Linden dollar, it can be used to buy, sell, rent or trade land or goods and services with other users. Virtual goods include buildings, vehicles, devices of all kinds, animations, clothing, skin, hair, jewelry, flora and fauna, and works of art.
Premium membership allows the Resident to own land, with the first 512 m².There is no upper limit on tier at the highest level, the user pays US$295 for their first 65536 m². Any land must first be purchased from either Linden Lab or a private seller. There are four types of land regions such as Mainland, Private Region, Homestead and Open space. Mainland regions form one continuous land mass, while Private regions are islands. Open space regions may be either Mainland or Private, but have lower prim limits and traffic use levels than Mainland regions. Residents must own a region, either Mainland or Private, to qualify for purchasing an Open space region.
I found this site where it explains what second life is and how it works. I suggest you take a chance and look it up, it is very interesting how this works and maybe you get the chance to create your own avatar. Good luck!
http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en-US
you should post this as a post this is really good
ReplyDeleteEven universities are using it for orientation, recruiting and even course delivery. It's awesome but expensive. Did you create an avatar?
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