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15 unusual facts about Second Life


ABC Innovation

In March, 2007 ABC Innovation led the corporation's establishment of an 'ABC Island' in virtual world Second Life, launched with a live simulcast of a Four Corners program on virtual worlds titled You Only Live Twice.

Annabeth Robinson

Using Second Life and other Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), Robinson explores their potential as a medium for art and design practice whilst examining its educational potential.

Berlin School of Economics and Law

Since 2010, BSEL also has an experimental virtual campus in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, established and supervised by BSEL's Head of E-Learning, Marcus Birkenkrahe.

Brett Atwood

At Linden Lab, he works on editorial and content strategy for multiple products including the Internet-based 3D digital world Second Life.

Cartoon pornography

Virtual child pornography can be punished with up to 5 years in prison in Germany, German prosecutors investigated the video game Second Life because of some people role playing as underage characters with virtual underage avatars.

Digital signage

In 2009, Texas State Technical College created an associate’s degree in Digital Signage Technology, using their Second Life delivery system.

Gaspar Llamazares

In May 2007 prior to the Municipal Elections Llamazares Became the first national Political Leader to campaign through Second Life.

Global Love Day

In recent years, Global Love Day has additionally been celebrated in the virtual world of Second Life.

Globally unique identifier

Second Life uses GUIDs for identification of all assets in its world.

IBM Virtual Universe Community

The community members also work on numerous projects to promote virtual worlds in the sphere of art, cross cultural collaboration, social enterprise, sustainable development, services based innovation and learning, both on internal IBM grids and public virtual world grids, such as Second Life and other Open Sim based grids.

LifeChurch.tv

Easter Sunday, 2007, LifeChurch.tv began broadcasting from their new campus in the online game Second Life.

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins

Some commentators have suggested the Pruneyard rule could be applied to speech on the Internet, including speech activities in virtual worlds, like Linden Labs' Second Life, although the courts have not addressed this theory.

Rainbows End

There are many realities to choose from in the novel; however, the largest and more robust of them are built by large user bases in the manner of a wiki or Second Life.

Science Friday

Science Friday maintained an island (Science Friday Island) in Second Life, including an open air theater with live audio and video feeds of the broadcast.

Virtual tax

The only exception to the ban is Second Life which in the eyes of many, including eBay representatives, is not a game.


Creatorverse

The game gained notoriety in the gaming press as the first tablet app released by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which had previously been known primarily as the creator of the online virtual world Second Life.

Liliana Santos

She starred as Raquel in the philosophical drama "Second Life" (2009), from director Miguel Gaudêncio.

OneClimate

In December 2007, Ed Markey became the first US politician to utilize the medium of Second Life, through which he addressed the delegates of the UNFCCC in Bali as part of OneClimate's Virtual Bali event.

Open world

Examples include in-game web browsers in EVE Online and The Matrix Online; XML integration tools and programming languages in Second Life; shifting exchange rates in Entropia Universe; and the complex object-and-grammar system used to solve puzzles in Scribblenauts.

Species dysphoria

In 2007, Los Angeles artist Micha Cárdenas created Becoming Dragon, a "mixed-reality performance" in which a virtual reality experience was created to allow a person to completely experience life through the eyes of a dragon avatar in the virtual world, Second Life.

The Edublog Awards

In 2007 James N. Farmer rejoined the team, and Jo Kay joined the team for the first time, providing the awards ceremony with a home in the virtual world platform Second Life.

WebQuest

The WebQuest methodology has been transferred to language learning in the 3D virtual world Second Life to create a more immersive and interactive experience.