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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Universities running in Second Life - Joanna Sugden, Times Online
University may be the time to reinvent yourself, but go to one with a campus in Second Life and you can have a total body refit. The internet-based 3D virtual world, where you choose your gender, age, colour and appearance and live out a parallel animated existence, is becoming the playground - and study space - of British universities. Latest figures estimate that three-quarters of British higher education institutions are involved in Second Life in some way. Professor Austin Tate, in charge of Edinburgh University's Second Life campus, says the virtual world is becoming crowded. “Heriot Watt University is just next to us, a few squares south is Princeton and just across is MIT.”
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