SYNOPSIS: The story of Jitze (20), a professional gamer who travels around the world to compete in video game tournaments. During a stay in Taipei he unexpectedly witnesses an accident which ressembles those he re-enacts in his video games on a day to day basis; this confronts him with his own mortality and his world is suddenly shaken by reality, in a violent way. He meets an intriguing Taiwanese woman in the hotel bar where he is staying, never quite figuring out whether she is an escort, masseuse or bettle …

For all of the conveniences of online shopping — no crowds, easy parking, seemingly endless choices — it can’t always compete with the real thing. At least not yet.
A Kansas State University marketing professor said consumers can expect that some of the disadvantages of online shopping will disappear as retailers adapt models from Second Life.

Esther Swilley is a K-State assistant professor of marketing who studies e-commerce and mobile marketing trends. Her research has included exploring the role of trust in choosing which Web sites to shop, seeing what types of …

Second Life® and Opensim rely on high-end computing hardware and broadband for a full, immersive virtual world experience. But what about when you’re away from your computer, at school, at work, traveling, or when you simply don’t have the time to launch the full SL Viewer? what if you just wanted to send a few Instant messages?
Now you can with Sparkle IM. Log in to your Second Life® or Opensim account and begin chatting right from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Formerly known as Touch Life, Pocket Metaverse Pro is an iPhone app for Second Life®. Log into Second Life at any time from your iPhone or iPod Touch. It is the most complete mobile client for accessing Second Life, providing easy access to all major functions.

Second life gives one a chance to live in a virtual world. You can gain access to this world with the help of the Internet. But it is no different from the real world.
Even there you need money and property to survive (though there is also the free way…).
Users can become “Residents” of this world and interact with each other with the help of avatars. People have bought land in the virtual world and built shops that sell various products. People have bought houses and some lucky ones have been …

Foreword | Three-dimensional virtual environments (3dves) are the new generation of digital multi-user social networking platforms. Their immersive character allows users to create a digital humanised representation or avatar, enabling a degree of virtual interaction not possible through conventional text-based internet technologies.
As recent international experience demonstrates, in addition to the conventional range of cybercrimes (including economic fraud, the dissemination of child pornography and copyright violations), the ‘virtual-reality’ promoted by 3dves is the source of great speculation and concern over a range of specific and emerging forms of crime and …

I came back to Second life not so long ago to find JAG so excited about the latest craze and new business model on SL: interact with, feed,  grow and breed bunnies!
Ozimals™ is an organization that can make A. I. (Artificial Intelligence) domestic pets for entertainment inside the 3D environment of Second Life. Their unique invention being introduced is the Ozimals™ Bunnies. These kinds of house animals can interact, consume food, rest, grow up, and also reproduce with each other.