Second Life

During the workshop I was introduced to Second Life, the virtual world which allows its users to create an avatar and live a 'second life', you meet people from all over the world through the internet. I found it very similar to the 'Sims' games series as you can control your avatar to carry out day to day human activities. I guess the main curiosity about Second Life is how the users choose to represent themselves in terms of appearance and gender and how do their personalities change whilst in the virtual world compared to the real world. Personally I preferred to create an avatar resembling me in terms of appearance and found myself spending vast amounts of time tweaking and playing with the edit appearance tool. I found problems removing the hair, and after a few minutes exploring the virtual world and eventually lost interest. I guess its because of my outgoing personality as I do spend much of my time outdoors.

Here are two screen shots of Second Life

Edit Appearance Tool

Second Life Virtual World