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Second Life began to receive significant media attention in 2005 and 2006, including a cover story in BusinessWeek magazine featuring the virtual world and Second Life avatar Anshe Chung. [23] By that time, Anshe Chung had become Second Life ' s poster child and symbol for the economic opportunities that the virtual world offers to its residents.
Users exploring the world with their avatars in Second Life. A virtual world (also called a virtual space or spaces) is a computer-simulated environment [1] which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar [2] and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.
Anshe Chung is the main avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online world Second Life.Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" [8] by a CNN journalist, she has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies, and has been featured in a number of prominent magazines such as Business Week, [9] Fortune [10 ...
2007: Scams, bans and friction By 2007, a pattern was beginning to emerge. While Linden Lab was lax (some might say excessively lax) in various forms of enforcement, the Lab wound up closely ...
Massively multiplayer online games (8 C, 245 P) Metaplace ... Virtual reality communities (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Virtual world communities" ... Second Life ...
RMB City is a virtual city in the online world of Second Life, planned and developed by Beijing artist Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy). Launched in 2008 and open to the public since January 2009, RMB City is a platform for experimental creative activities, one in which Cao Fei and her collaborators use different mediums to test the boundaries between virtual and physical existence.
Training and Collaboration with Virtual Worlds [1] lists multiple examples of enterprise collaboration projects in Second Life by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. First meetings and conferences in Second Life closely resembled similar events in real life. Organizers put a lot of effort into creation of exact replicas of their university or corporate ...
These days, social games like Farmville and Mafia Wars have captured the attention of a large part of the gaming and technology industries. But it wasn't so long ago that another game seemed to be ...