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 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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• 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.

Key words

Second life

Avatar Replicas Virtual world Corporate training

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A world does not belong to a physical reality

DIFFERENT TYPES OF REPLICAS

• Replicas: A copy or reproduction on a smaller scale

than the original.

DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF AVATAR

• Avatar: Computer user´s cartoonist representation in

the form of a three-dimensional model

CORPORATE TRAINING

• Some companies are using SL as a medium for their employees to socialize and exchange information

SL is formed by islands and their residents can talk in different languages

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In only some instants one can reach Brazil from Moscow

The news about the program is

travelling fast

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• 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

SL has it all, from information points till supermarkets and

big commercial centres

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• 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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• 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.