What is a Virtual World?

What is a Virtual World?

• A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment which users inhabit and with which they interact via their on-screen representatives known as avatars. An avatar is a person in a virtual world.
  
  
• In a virtual world, life and its social relationships are represented by three-dimensional graphical characterizations of multiple users appearing together.
  
  
• The world being simulated has real world rules such as physics, gravity, topography, locomotion, real-time actions, and communication.
  
  
• Second Life is the best known virtual world at this time with more than 14 million residents.
  
  
• Second Life is a social environment where people learn, explore, work, shop and play.

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More details at the Center for the Study of Virtual Worlds »

About Second Life:

• What is Second Life?  STO
  
• Great Places in Second Life  UNCP
  
• A small photo gallery of Second Life  STO
  
• Second Life Photostream  Flickr
  
• Second Life on YouTube  YouTube
  
• Getting Started in Second Life  UNCP
  
• How to travel into Second Life?  STO
  
• News Media in Second Life  UNCP
  
• Using Second Life for Education  STO
  
• Education on the Second Life Grid  Linden Lab
  
• The Second Life Grid  Linden Lab
  
• Some notes from Second Life  UNCP
  
• Second Edition Blog  WordPress
  
• News of Second Life and Virtual Worlds  UNCP
  
• Second Life home page  Linden Lab
  
• How To Build in Second Life  UNCP
  
• Second Life: PG vs. Mature  UNCP
  
• Scholarly References about Second Life and Virtual Worlds  UNCP

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