Second Life (Second Life) and the virtual world revolution

However, large-scale civilian access to the Internet 10 years, but has gone through a news portal, search engine, e-commerce, Web communities, and other stages. Comparing with the reality of our lives, the virtual network is set up on the Internet on the basis of all the "virtual". Blue Sky blog have always believed that the emergence of the Internet and will complete the development of human beings to subvert the traditional way of life, work, study, will lead to social ethics and moral, legal, cultural, political and economic change in the whole area. Perhaps one day, you are no longer just a body of you, your spirit, your ideas will be on the Internet to build a "You." The "you" is a virtual, but they do exist, and even the real you close the gap between virtual and reality will be filled.

Virtual World (Virtual World) does not mean virtual reality (Virtual Reality). Virtual world that is not a simple virtual reality, but the other "environment", although sometimes the reality and can not be separated. Talking about the virtual world, one has to mention the initiator of the concept and practice: Second Life (Second Life). Second Life is the world's largest virtual world of games, more than 6,000,000 registered users. Second Life is a San Francisco-based Linden Lab (Linden Lab) in 2003 launched a "cooperation, integration and openness," featuring large-scale simulation of realistic 3D online games. In this game, everyone can create their own virtual "second life", and with this in the virtual world of the others occurred in a wide range of relations and realize their own in the first life did not dream . Second Life, "from October 2005 to 10 million registered users in October 2006 to 100 million registered users, and then in June 2007 of the 6,000,000 registered users, it can be said that Second Life has been developing rapidly.

And other online games, virtual world, not secretive and supernatural monster of Warcraft, there is no robe mandarin Daoqiangjianji, some of the real world is all some years: the sale of small and big business, family and friends, met with Respectively, the subject of ridicule and hate his concubine, leisure and travel. Players can play in real life with a very different role, can create and purchase items with the ownership and sale of goods, "Second Life" users pay "a week" for their investment transactions. Linden Lab to limit themselves only to residents and businesses to provide land and tools to enable them to play to imagine, to create hands-on in the world. Most importantly, Linden Lab also provides money, players will be in "Second Life" make the virtual "Linden dollars", converted into real U.S. dollars. Second Life to make money on the most typical example is the German-Chinese female teachers Irene - Steffi Graf. In her "second life" in the incarnation of the "security bell homes" is one of the world's first virtual rely on the fortune of a millionaire investment. Graf and the "Second Life" is the investment in real estate. Linden Lab released by the end of March 2007 showed that "Second Life" has 32,000 people have positive cash flow, in which more than 800 people per month will be 1000 U.S. dollars, which is the real world of dollars.

Second Life is not a pure sense of online games, its mission and is not the role of "game", even though many people regard it as an interesting 3D online games. Second Life virtual world and also affected the popularity of the concept of a large number of organizations in the real world: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak have been used Second Life to run for president; Intel, Coca-Cola, IBM and so on a large number of the world's top 500 companies move into Second Life to carry out Virtual commodity trading ... ... But the director of the Second Life virtual world revolution is also a double-edged sword, the virtual world to subvert the traditional law of human, moral and cultural balance, leading to a virtual image of the (Avatar) individuals in the virtual world The "out of control." It is reported that the Second Life virtual world with a stroll in pornography, gambling, the atmosphere of terror: It was the second in the life experience of rape, extortion and even killed.

However, any new birth of a need to improve step by step process, represented by the Second Life virtual world is no exception. It can be said that, Second Life virtual world and will have a bright future. Also as a result of this official in the area of confidence in the global Internet leader Google has launched its own virtual world service "Google Lively". Other virtual worlds, such as the Kingdom would like to create (Novoking), HiPiHi (HiPiHi) and uWorld (by me or the world of self-World) are also in the development or testing.

As the notice said uWorld: (virtual world) to allow Internet users to experience the real world with a completely different life experience, communication, entertainment, production, exchange, learn from them, such as in the wonderful virtual world to be a rebirth of The opportunity to complete has been the dream of an ideal life ... or ... We look forward to continue to interpret the virtual world, changing our lives and give us a new "second life" experience.

Laws related Web site (official website):
Second Life (Seond life): http://secondlife.com
HiPiHi (HiPiHi): http://www.hipihi.com
Google Lively: http://www.lively.com
The Kingdom would like to create (Novoking): http://www.novoking.com
I am by the World (uWorld): http://www.uworld3d.com
3D Virtual World of the Forbidden City: http://www.beyondspaceandtime.org