My Second Life Experience

My first solo picture in Second Life. I was just teleporting randomly, until i saw what looks ot be a very Asian influenced part of second life. I saw women in kimonos with white makeup dressed as kimono,s a traditional Chinese dragon puppet used for celebrations, and as seen above, an outdoor mini house with Korean flags decorating the interior.



My second stop in Second Life. Basically a pretty cool park that would make an awesome real life camping grounds. Had a fireplace with a piano in the background, and even little animals running about.




My third visited area. Looked like possibly a festival could be held here, or a celebration. Noticed the Coke vending machine.






A nice beach with a cool sand castle. It was quite empty at the time, however upon revisiting, there was half a dozen or so users running around the beach.

Tao Isles

Tao Isles (final upload of mine): I picked this location since it is very peaceful, which is a complete paradox of my life, since my life si anything but.

Swiss Park

Swiss Park: I included my character in the park since I ran track for almost 5 years and enjoy running in the park by the apartment I live in.

Winterfell Ebonshire

Winterfell Ebonshire: For some strange reason the names are still not showing on my home computer. My guy is enjoying the wonderful view of the sea.

2nd Life cont.

1) The real world and World obviously have a distinction present and that is the boundaries between reality and a fictional world. In World, you can visit a place virtually anywhere, and even in someone's mind that they have made up. Places that you can explore are areas from a movie or a comic book as well such as Gotham City. This is impossible to do in the real world, so World makes that possible. Certainly the ability to fly around is not the same as the real world as well. The society differs in many ways, but the main part is that, you can be whatever your mind wants you to be. World is really just a fictional world and it could be possible to get mixed up in this fake world from the real world.

2) I would say meeting in World was a lot more frustrating that meeting on BB vista or using a standard email or AIM client. I would much prefer email/text rather than meeting on World. Our group met physically for World and we did it side by side in the library, and even then we struggled because of the poor server status, we constantly lost the network and found it very frustrating to even meet together for a meaningless couple minutes. I would never use World again. Then again, maybe it was just the libraries computers and connection that was terrible. That was just our groups experience with it.

3) The concept behind World is there, and I believe it could be a useful teaching tool because you can explore areas of interesting where you don't actually have to go to. For example, say you're learning about the Great Wall of China, the teacher could take the class there in World and explore it. However, many technically issues such as connecting to the server and such, make that hard to do and they need to be resolved first.

4) Both the arts and society play a role in World. Obviously society because this is a social tool and it changes the way society interacts. People can actually meet up and communicate without going anywhere, and it is as close to physically being there as possible. The arts is part of this because people can actually use their imagination to create new worlds and explore, and that entirely is a new "art" of its own.

My 2nd Life Places Visited

Haunted Village

I usually like dark things, so the haunted village

caught my attention. It was very scary though, but I could see bats flying around a

bove a mountain in the back, and

what looks like to be a haunted "hut."

John King Pirate Tavern

This world was weird at first because they spawned me at the bottom of the ocean and I had to fly to get to the top of the pirate ship. It was interesting to explore, this snapshot doesn't really view it well because it l

ooks like it had a lag problem.

Herd Thinner

This world looked like a high end resort of some sort, it looks like a giant hotel and outside is a very scenic area with palm trees and an ocean surrounding it. I stood next to the fire place in this snapshot to relax.

Blue Galaxy

This world was a art filled area with this nice water fountain and a painting. It was interesting to explore.

Group photo

This is our Awesome Boston group photo. Taken in Gotham city in front of the Ventriloquist club, our group was plagued by lots of technical difficulties since someone seemed to be dropped every five minutes we we in. Any other place would be easier to meet in then this Second Life.