Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Second Life: a reality as you want

Anyone can create the identity they want with a computer connected to the Internet. A phenomenon that has managed to grow the game world is “Second Life”. Imagine you  starting  life again. Have a different identity and no longer have any connection with the real world. A virtual world where everything is created by users, just as they want.There are a huge variety of musical genres, enough to satisfy all users. At most events is free access. For residents of Second Life is possible to participate in races with cars, private parties or classes Philip Rosedale, the man who invented the concept of Second Life, said at the beginning: “We do not build a game, but a country”. Today’s project is much more than that. Second Life has become a very popular area, where 8 million people so far have created their own universe. In Second Life there are no limits to creativity, business and social interactions

What you should know about Second Life

In total, users around the world have spent more than one billion hours in Second Life.

Second Life Residents spend an average of about 100 minutes inworld per visit.

The equivalent of more than USD1 billion has been transacted between Residents in SecondLife, who purchase virtual goods and services from one another.

Residents create more than 250,000 new virtual goods every day – from clothing to vehicles to buildings to automatic language translators, and more.

More than 18 billion minutes of voice chat have been used in Second Life since voice was introduced in 2007.

Approximately 1,250 text-based messages are sent every second in Second Life, and more than 600 million words are typed on an average day.

The total land area of Second Life is now equivalent to approximately two billion square meters – roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island.

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