What is "Second Life"?
Friday August 1, 2008
"Second Life" is a virtual online world where most anything is possible. Recently featured in an episode of "CSI: NY", the Second Life game is a living breathing world of millions of users. Players buy and sell goods, real estate, artwork, and property. Players interact in virtual relationships, get married, start corporations. It's boggling. And it's also the largest computer game in the world right now. Courtney Marchelletta tells us more... (Image Copyright 2007, Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved_
There is a bit more to second life than socializing and dressing up your avatar. A huge aspect of the platform is the ability to create. From recreations of outstanding real life architecture to things only imagined.
This, for me, is what makes Second Life unlike any other “game” out there.