Virtual Worlds: City of Decatur, Georgia Mulling Virtual World Interface

 

As you read the article, it says,  "Might be in SecondLife."  It also says, "It is in the planning stages."  The reason for me writing about this is the wonders of modern and future technology.  It is happening right now.  Spite our economy and so forth, we are living in wonderful times.

As I am writing this article SecondLife has 53,515 people login inworld.  In the past 60 days, Second Life has recorded 1,442,781 people logged inworld.  That is a lot of people using SecondLife.  This 3-D virtual reality is only five years old, and it has grown beyond how most technology systems have done in their first five years.  That is say a great deal, if not an understatement.

Another words, SecondLife has a great deal of growth potential yet to come in the next five years.  Many, many people have made real life money in SecondLife.  By far, SecondLife much, much, much more then a game.  The biggest wonders of SecondLife is not from the Linden Labs, but from the users themselves.  All that one sees in SecondLife was created not by Linden Labs, but the users of SecondLife.  Another words, it is each user that has made SecondLife what it is today and what it will become in the future.  That makes SecondLife just as real as life itself.  I wonder if Linden Labs realized how big their 3-D Virtual Reality would be when they named it "SecondLife?"

There is really no limit to what one can do inworld of SecondLife.  It is by fare the most cheapest way to do things.  To rent a house in SecondLife it might cast 800L$/week.  In real life money that is a little over three United States Dollars per week.  Tell me a house in real life that cost that little.  That is 3 times 4 weeks = $12 per month.  That is $12 times 12 months = $24 per year.

There are rental homes that are cheaper.  The issue is how much do you want to put into your home?  The more the rental cost the more one can add into the home based on what is called "prim count."  To understand what is a prim or primitive, one needs to read more about it.  The purpose of this article is to show the wonders of SecondLife and its possible future.

Spite all that has been going on in SecondLife, it has only been five years in the making.  It may take less then that for most people around the world to fully be on it on a constant basis, or it can take more then five years.  It is hard to tell.  Sometimes doing things too fast is not all that good.  If it can easily be created, it can be just as easy to destroy.  As with real life, there have been businesses that did not make it, and others that have thrived.

It might be cheaper to create and design things inworld, but as with real life, it does cost.  Right now the exchange rate to put money (at least in the USA) $1 to 263L$.  That means if one add $1 into their account, they will get about 263L$.  The rate of exchange is not a constant.  This is no different then moving your money to another country.  To buy linden dollars and bring in to the real world (at least in the USA) the rate of exchange is 272L$ to $1.  With Buying land and paying monthly fees afterwards, one will not get 100% money back in real life.  One might say, what is the difference in all that information compared to all the fees a business has to pay in real life?

That is how real SecondLife can be.   There will always be pros and cons to anything in life.  It might be to the point that not all businesses will benefit in a virtual world.  One cannot eat a McDonald's Hamburger in SecondLife and eat it in real life.  That brings this point out to the name of this 3-D Virtual Reality, it is a Second Life.  That can mean a great deal.  This new and very popular 3-D virtual reality one can nearly live as one can do in real life and even make money for real life.  Just the same, they are both separate from each other.

In SecondLife one can be anything they want to be:  male, female, animal, robot, Darth Vader, Koolaide Man, Sponge Bob, anything.  One might say, "A male in real life being a female in SecondLife, eeewww!!!"  I say, "How is that any different then being a animal (what is called a furry in SL)?  Are you an animal in real life?  Are you Darth Vader in RL?  It is how you present yourself in SL that makes a different.  It is never how you look.

In a lot of ways, it might be better to be a female then a male.  There are more clothes and wearable items for a female then a male, free or not.  One can do more in shaping a female avatar then a male one.  That is why I have a female avatar, FraterPhoenix Finesmith.  I am a male in real life, and I am very happy to be a male in real life.  I chosen a female due to my love of creativity.  I do not want to be limited other then my own limitations.

Here are a few video about SecondLife from YouTube that I would like to share on this post.  I hope you will see the overwhelming possibilities of SecondLife as I have:

 

Introduction to Second Life

 

 

Machinima: Text 100 in Second Life

 

Educational Uses of Second Life

 

Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life

 

Second Life used for virtual recruiting by State of Missouri

 

Second Life recruiting

 

There are many, many more that I could have shared, but these videos you all have to look at yourself.  SecondLife is more powerful then what I have stated in this posting.  SecondLife is not for everyone.  No one tool is right for everything or everyone.  Though, SecondLife is a very powerful and meaningful tool for a lot of business and individuals.  That is the purpose of this blog posting: to let everyone see the potential of SecondLife to encourage more research on SecondLife.  Thank you.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers
SecondLife Name:  FraterPhoenix Finesmith.

 

 

 

Virtual Worlds: City of Decatur, Georgia Mulling Virtual World Interface