The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center has an interesting new rehabilitation project in Second Life’s virtual world called “AVESS” (Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space). Soldiers abroad who find themselves an amputee typically spend weeks or months in rehab afterwards, away from their friends and family back home. Then when they do return home, they find themselves isolated from their support system of therapists, psychologists, and friends. The in-world AVESS attempts to allow these soldiers to interact with their family Virtually, and then attend presentations and group …

Like in real life, people come and go on Second Life.
The club was keeping both Saki and I very busy. Saki and I were hosting parties everyday at the club with different djs and that did not leave us time to do much of anything else. But it was also also a good opportunity to meet new people and for new friendships like Ninoo and his girlfriend Meea. Ninoo was a dj and started dj’ing at the club on New Years day. Life on Second Life is …

I joined Second Life® sometime in 2006. At the time I was heavily involved with Internet Marketing. An ebook came out about Second Life® explaining why it was good to join on a marketing point of view. I knew about Second Life but never really checked it out but decided to buy the ebook, read it and joined. At the same time I was also an avid player of the Sims 2. So the first thing that got me was the graphic, the way avatars moved …