Second Life - A Much Closer Look

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Published on November 8, 2015 5:45:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JppPFDJ1o

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Second Life (2003)

Duration: 3:18

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Have we looked beyond what have been shown to us about Second Life and give enough time to make sense of the more intricate meanings behind the virtual things that resides inside it? Maybe now's the time.

Look and presentation are very important factors in how we perceive and see things. And back then, SL might look 'unpleasantly weird' to take its place as "the Virtual World" we have dreamed of for decades. To the majority of its users, media people trying to cover it, and therefore the mass public in general. As a result, SL didn't get the prolonged mainstream attention it deserves, and initial hype died out.

But times have changed, people are getting more and more tech-savvy each day, technology are getting better, hardware availability and computing power are growing exponentially, channels to show and present things have branched out far beyond the mainstream media of the old, and powerful computers are getting cheaper and more accessible even as you read this.

If there's a time to make Second Life, and the concept of Virtual Worlds cool again, now's the time. This is my attempt.

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