Not only can virtual events be as engaging as physical events, they can be even better. When it comes to a 3-D virtual reality, one can do things in that environment more than one could do in real life. You can go places that one may not be able to in real life. With the economy keeping us tied down due to watching our purses, most people cannot afford to go to the local park.
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Systems like SecondLife allows all of us to do more than ever before. People that cannot walk can sore through this 3-D virtual world. Businesses can train their employees in ways they cannot other wise in real life. Business can gather it people around the world, having meetings, show presentations, and all sort of real time interactions within SecondLife.
People have made real life money in this 3-D virtual world called SecondLife. Due to this realistic environment, there are practically endless things that can be done within SecondLife. For a couple of years now, the cancer research has gotten a lot of real life money from donations inworld (inworld means inside the 3-D virtual world of SecondLife). Please do not think that one can get rich quick in this 3-D virtual reality. That could never happen in real life, and it will not happen in a virtual life.
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SecondLife is simply a tool. It is a very powerful tool. Many have gotten married in real life by meeting in this virtual one. This virtual world is more than a dating service, an educational medium, business opportunity, etc. It is all of that and more. As with real life it is how you use something that makes it successful. Nothing is gained by doing nothing or very little. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction.
There might be more hard work in a 3-D virtual world than in real life. How successful something turns out is up to how much is put into it. SecondLife can be an exciting and challenging medium, but anything worth having is not easy. The most important rule I have learned about SecondLife is this: SecondLife is not real life. One must understand that how you treat your customers, students, or whomever cannot be treated in the same manner as in real life.
Another words, you may meet in SecondLife an animal, robot, male, female, or any type of avatar. Unless the meeting is a professional business meeting, you cannot expect the avatars be act as they would in real life. What I mean is they will not act human. The person behind the avatar can be either male or female and be the opposite gender in SecondLife. What is important is how the person behind the avatar interacts with others inworld. How they look does not mean all that much.
I might need to put a safe guard in. Any misconduct, meaning a sexual perversion or violence is not accepted in most places in SecondLife. All this is common sense. It is amazing to me that a few thinks they can do anything they want to in life without consequences for they actions. Morals are just as important in a virtual world as it is in the real one.
I am for one am grateful that Linden Labs (the ones that run and operation SecondLife) has hammered down on the sexual activities. Nothing wrong with sex, but there is a place for everything. In real life, would you go to a town that was infested with prostitution? I would not. To rightfully communicate and interact with others, one must show respect for self and others. This is of course common sense.
A lot has changed inworld of SecondLife since it was created nearly 6 years ago. The economy in real life may have hurt how businesses do things in either world, but SecondLife does show promise on how we all might be doing things online in the future. I cannot say what that may be. Time will tell. It always does.
Brandon Bowers
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