What is Second Life? Have you gone there?

[danlo]

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Thanks danlo. I couldn't find it.

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[Ki]

I tried Second Life and wasn't very good at it. When I read that some bigger companies were going to start using it for conferences and meetings, I bought a book to help me understand it. The book was Second Life: The Official Guide. I need to give it another try after reading the book.

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Man, there's money being made out of this hand over fist.

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[Ki]

yea, too bad i am not savvy enough to take advantage of the situation.

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I hear that. Hahaha.

Pretty amazing though.

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[Trapper]

I saw a documentary that showed a lot of excerpts of it.

You start off in the outer corridors of a moon-base type thing, and the first person you meet is the creator.

Only, he's not as cool as the Creator in SRD. He's set himself up as some kind of local God and he wants your cold hard cash.

Anyone read those tawdry Shadowrun novels years ago? In twenty years it might be like that. But until they can hardwire it straight into my nervous system in the same way as that I'm not really interested. Probably/especially not even then.

[lorin]

I read an article in the paper today about some huge VR world on the internet where you can buy property and you 'av' wanders around and does stuff. Said it originated at some westcoast university and has been on the internet for four years and is all the rage...

This SecondLife thing is pretty bazaar. It places role playing at a whole new level. The most amazing thing I find is that it crosses the boundary between virtual and 3d. For example, you can set up a virtual business on SecondLife, for instance maybe you design and sell jewelry. You can open up a virtual shop, sell virtual jewelry to a virtual people with their tender called Linden Dollars. Now the interesting thing is that as any country, these foreign currency Linden Dollars can be converted into hard currency.

The economy is based on the Linden™ dollar (L$), Second Life's virtual micro-currency. Residents can buy and sell L$ on the LindeX™ the official virtual currency exchange of Second Life. In 2008 more than USD $100 million worth of L$ were bought and sold on the LindeX.

As I understand it from what I am reading, there is actually a possibility of setting up a real income generating virtual business.

This stuff really set the writer in me on fire.

secondlife.com/

[CovenantJr]

Linden Dollars

I assume these dollars are completely useless.

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Actually, the offical exchange rate is L$250 : US$1. Really.

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[lorin]

Actually, the offical exchange rate is L$250 : US$1. Really.

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REALLY real

www.powerhomebiz.com/News/072009/second-life.htm
hubpages.com/hub/Making-money-on-Second-Life

[Cleburne]

I ve spent a bit of time on Second life and find it cool , I go to listen to live DJ,s playing in various venues from Jazz to rock to dance music . and the people are friendly in general I suppose if you visit fairly often.

[JazFusion]

Wasn't there a law suit recently where some guy sued his Second Life "wife" for emotional damages or something because they got divorced in the Second Life world but were never married in the real world or something....?

Is this real life?!

*edit* Here it is! There's also a bunch of law suits centering around debauchery and naughty bits.

[lorin]

Will she get alimony in Linden Dollars?

The story possibilities of this stuff are endless.

Going to virtual rehab www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/16/db.secondli ... index.html

[hue of fuzzpaws]

My experience of Second Life is comparable to watching paint drying . . .

sloooowly.

[CovenantJr]

You make it sound like Lord of the Rings...