second life

Second Life was a fashionable virtual destination, and had its own Reuters reporter.

Interstar's XMediusFAX FoIP solution, the industry's first IP fax server to run inside a Cisco Integrated Services Router , will be featured next week in a Cisco Second Life TechChat on November 20, at Noon ...

An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice.

Linux.com: "On one hand, as an implementation of Microsoft's .Net that's sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and as a possible source of patent claims, should Microsoft choose to get nasty.

On the other hand, Mono has been the platform of choice for such major projects as Second Life, which uses it to increase the efficiency of its servers."

Linux.com: "Linden Lab, creator of the online virtual space Second Life, recognized the accomplishments of outstanding individuals in its open source community this week at its Linden Lab Innovation Awards.

Seven winners were announced at a "mixed reality" ceremony held both at a convention center in Florida and simultaneously within the Second Life system."

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LinuxInsiders: "...in the digital world, who lays down the law? As virtual worlds such as Second Life and Eve Online continue to grow, attracting more and more residents -- and often for vastly different reasons -- who decides what goes and what doesn't?

What constitutes a crime in these worlds? Do real-world laws apply, or is up to the creators of these fantasy lands to police their own environments?"

Second Life vendor Linden Lab has been dabbling in open source for quite a while: their client code is available, and they've persistently talked about making the server open source as well.

But now the company is facing a potential upheaval to its business model, as alternative compatible virtual worlds are popping up all over the place

Yes, there is something nerdier than blogging : We learned about the biggest difference, though, by reading this interview with Mel Guymon, Google's Head of 3D Operations: Second Life is a land of do-as-you ...

Internet giant Google has unveiled its response to Second Life, an online 3D world called Lively .