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Second Life
Sunday, June 24th, 2007 03:55 pmAfter deciding to do my ENG 102 course on virtual worlds, I thought I'd take another look at Second Life. (I'm thinking of doing the first part of the course on virtual worlds in fiction and film, and the second half on attempts at creating actual virtual worlds, if that isn't an oxymoron.) I first looked at Second Life when it was in beta and thought, "Hmmm, this is like Quake, except you can't kill people and it runs at 1/10 of the speed." Now, four years later, with a decent Internet connection and graphics card, it looks rather better, although the lag is still appalling at times. And I can look like a dork in VR too!
First impressions are that most people in SL either make money to buy stuff or make stuff to make money. The rest of the time, they dance and flirt. In other words, it's just like real life viewed through a letterbox in low res. Idoru, it ain't.
Still, I gather there is much more to SL than this. So my question for my dear readers is: Do any of you hang out in Second Life? And what do you actually do there?
First impressions are that most people in SL either make money to buy stuff or make stuff to make money. The rest of the time, they dance and flirt. In other words, it's just like real life viewed through a letterbox in low res. Idoru, it ain't.
Still, I gather there is much more to SL than this. So my question for my dear readers is: Do any of you hang out in Second Life? And what do you actually do there?
