Second life. The big blog:)

Secondlife is a 3-D world, in which any given person who has access to a suitable specified system with a broadband connection can create an avatar which represents however they would wish to look in a second life. Funnily enough, I was watching "Hogan knows best" on MTV, and the advertisement basically showed the way a person could create a character who may not represent their actual self, but how they would want to appear as an avatar.

Now I've been a member of the secondlife society for about a month, and feel I now need to review my time on the site and talk about how I created my avatar and interacted it within the environment.

To start with, I found the site difficult to get used to, partially due to the fact I skipped the tutorial at the start. However, when I got used to the right click facility, used to interact with the objects and environment around me, I began to get used to doing certain tasks. This allowed me to change the appearence of my avatar. I tried to make my avatar appear as much like me as possible, to begin with. This is something I tend to do on all games like this, as a preference, as I enjoy testing the software to see how it copes with making a character look similar to the real-life me. However, when going around the site, I found more and more people had dressed in clothing which was actually humourous. This then tempted me into creating a free appearence to my character, I wanted something different. Hence my current image, of Tuxedo, cigar and a wheelchair, definetly different to the people I had seen previously.




Below I have some screenshots of different avatars I found on the site, which were bizaare, and clearly not a direct image of their owner.







The positive about how secondlife has been developed is that it has taking some inspiration from the real life world, and combined it with ideas from the virtual world, so pretty much anything is psysically possible. When my character had been created, and I had got used to the interface, I decided to search for well known places, landmarks and popular places within Secondlife, and see how these had been incorporated into the virual world. The first was Paris, New York and London, shown below







and finally I visited Amsterdam :) just for the laugh. This place shows me how much secondlife is based on adults rather than the younger generation. Some of its content leaves not alot to the imagination. Bizarre, but again perhaps something some people take serious when using secondlife.

Still have loads more to write, but I'm off to work for a few hours. Toodles x