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What is Second Life?
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. It is the size of a small city, with thousands of servers called simulators. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 4,494,251 people from around the globe. Residents come to the world from over 100 countries with concentrations in North America and the UK. Demographically, 60% are men, 40% are women and they span in age from 18 - 85. They are gamers, housewives, artists, musicians, programmers, lawyers, firemen, political activists, college students, business owners, active duty military overseas, architects, and medical doctors, to name just a few. Spending on average over 7 hours each week. For further information, browse through these links of in-world footage, blogs, and fansites:
Business & Education:
Second Life is an exciting new venue for collaboration, training, distance learning, new media studies and marketing.
Hold a virtual meeting with your sales managers located in Europe and Asia. You can present the new sales initiatives and discuss them with your team real-time.
Build a new world that allows Second Life residents to interact with your products or services and enables you to test out new designs and concepts before introducing them to the real world. Or perhaps you have a product that you would like to sell in Second Life. Plan an event to promote your product: a concert, a class, a famous speaker, a party, a contest.
Create an innovative learning environment for students and faculty. Explore new tools and techniques for information and scientific visualization. Design collaborative meeting spaces and interact with colleagues from across the globe. Whether you're thinking of enriching an existing curriculum or experimenting with completely new educational goals, Second Life is a platform for innovation.
With Second Life, you are only limited by your imagination.
Second Life is a 3D platform that can be used for:
- Presenting, promoting, and selling content to a broad online audience
- Collaborating and communicating in real time between multiple participants
- Researching new concepts/products
- Training and educating in virtual classroom
SL Economy:
An Internal Currency with Real Market Value
Millions of Linden Dollars change hands every month for the goods and services Residents create and provide. This currency may then be bought and sold on LindeX Second Life's official currency exchange), or other unaffiliated third party sites for real currency.
See the latest economy statistics for more information about the population, market, and business potential in Second Life!
Linden Dollars Spent:
Linden Currency Rates: L$ / US$1.00
Linden Currency Volume: L$ / US$1.00
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