Second Life gives you a chance to lead another life

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 investing in private islands.

The official currency of this place is called the Linden. It is similar to any other currency. Linden dollars can be bought online or a resident will have to work to earn them. Many people use Second Life in order to win real money.

If you are interested in designing you could design clothes for people in the virtual world. You could start a nightclub and charge an entry fee or survive on tips given by satisfied customers. You can also get a job and earn money just as you would in the real world. There are umpteen opportunities for people to earn in the virtual world. You should know how to make proper use of them. People can think up a business plan, develop it, evaluate the pros and cons and put it into practice in Second Life. If you are successful there you’d probably make a success of it in the real world, too.

A majority of the colleges in the US have started campuses in Second Life. Teachers can sit in their real homes and teach students in virtual classrooms. You could learn different languages, skills in marketing, development of the web and so on.

Second Life allows you to socialize and make new friends. Voice communication has transformed the way people interact in the second world. People are more trusting and shed their inhibitions easily in the virtual world. Friendships made there would definitely last a lifetime.

You can not also use third-party viewers which have been created by developers not working for Linden Lab. These Viewers offer altered or additional functionality compared to the official Second Life Viewer. And one of the most popular one at the moment is thew Emerald Viewer.

The Emerald Viewer used has an improved grid manager. It saves information when you log in. The texture download has improved. It has become faster. It allows the viewer to use particles of the old or new style. It could be used to set a new or old process. The feature of script counter used to freeze and not show a result. The problem has now been fixed. Viewer skins by Kirsten Lee have been added to make the user interface pretty. The LSL Preprocessor is useful for people that program in SL. The new shiny feature adds a little environment reflection to surface that is shiny. The shadow rendering gives dynamic shadows. Combat gamers who make use of ranged weapons can look out for the Mouse Look Zoom that makes gaming very easy. The option for editing worn items has been made simpler. One can enter the inventory, choose worm tab, locate the item, right-click and select edit.

Simple, isn’t it?