Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world which was launched in 2003. It was developed by Linden Research, Inc. The goal of Linden Research, Inc is to create a world like the Metaverse described by Stephenson, a user-defined world in which people can interact, play, do business, and otherwise communicate.
The clients of Second Life program are called Residents. Second Life provides an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items and services from one another. Second Life’s virtual currency is the Linden Dollar and it can be exchanged for real world currencies. Now more than 20 million accounts have been registered.
Sometimes Second Life just likes an online game but actually it is not. It does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, or most of the other characteristics of games.
Here is the Second Life tutorial video about “What is Second Life”? by SusiSpicoli
–Robin Lu
