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Friday, February 22, 2008
Second Life becomes arena for promotion of education - Eurogates
Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world launched in 2003. The downloadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Second Life offers virtual classrooms for major colleges and universities, including the University of Florida, Princeton, Rice University, University of Derby (UK), Vassar College, the Open University (UK), Harvard, INSEAD, VU university of Amsterdam (Holland), TU Delft (Holland) came recently on Second life.
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