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Second life
Second life is an internet-based virtual world. A (free) client program called the viewer enables its users, the Residents, to interact with each other through avatarscreating a virtual community
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SL
• SL was created by the
American engineer Philip Rosedale in 1999 and launched in 2003 in the United States
• Nowadays the virtual community has more than 7 million world wide residents
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SL
• The program was created for entertainment purposes but it includes also an important economical capital movement.
• In SL Residents can explore freely all the virtual space, meet other residents, socialize .Buy and sell items (virtual property) by using the program currency-linden-
• Sometimes SL is referred to as a game , but it does not have points, winners or losers, or most of the other characteristics of games.
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Key words
Second life
Avatar Replicas Virtual world Corporate training
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SL
A world does not belong to a physical reality
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF REPLICAS
• Replicas: A copy or reproduction on a smaller scale
than the original.
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DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF AVATAR
• Avatar: Computer user´s cartoonist representation in
the form of a three-dimensional model
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CORPORATE TRAINING
• Some companies are using SL as a medium for their employees to socialize and exchange information
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SL is formed by islands and their residents can talk in different languages
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SL
In only some instants one can reach Brazil from Moscow
The news about the program is
travelling fast
• SL
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SL
• As a projection of the real world, the access at the program is totally free but each resident would have to pay between 6 and 9 dollars monthly in order to install himself and would receive in change about 300 lindens which can be used for any kind of transactions inside of the virtual world
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SL has it all, from information points till supermarkets and
big commercial centres
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SL
• Any product existing in the real world market could be designed in the virtual space, from the last models of mobiles till the most fashionable shoes, inclusive sport-shoes (ex: Adidas) displayed in big commercial centres which can be acquired for only some lindens-dollars
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SL
• Some specialists in cases of addiction problems to the virtual world warn us that the infinite applications which SL proposes may create serious personality disorder.
• SL may be considered a second chance to have another kind of life, an ideal one.