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I heard about Second Life from a podcast almost a year ago. I decided to check it out. Essentially, Second Life is a 3-D environment where your digital character can live, play, work, whatever you want to do. It’s an entire community in and of itself.

However, I haven’t been able to get on Second Life a lot due to general lack of time, and the inability of my computer to handle the processing and networking needs of the Second Life app. Still though, it’s an interesting way to meet people from all over the world.

There’s going to be a meeting at PC on Monday night to discuss Second Life, and I highly advise all of you to come:

Monday evening Joe Corr will be giving a seminar at Portfolio Center around the topic of Second Life. Joe has a unique perspective as he is someone who sees the opertunity for the platform but also understands it’s limitations. The session is free, open to the public and should be allot of fun.

Overview of Second Life By Joe Corr, Sr Interactive Developer IQ Interactive

“Second Life is not a game, it’s not the 3D web, and it’s not yet ready for prime time. It is laggy, visually and technologically unsophisticated, and full of questionable and controversial content. So why should you bother with it? Because it has emerged as the first realized virtual arena that tackles the legal, financial and ethical questions that will eventually cripple it’s competitors. You should know the history of SL, the creative opportunities it affords, the current legal and business possibilities, and it’s potential future.

Joe came to Georgia for the Interactive Design & Game Development MFA program at SCAD in Savannah in 2005 and currently calls Athens home. While in the low country, he worked with Evoca.com on their flash app, SCAD as their Flash/Backend developer, and presently at IQ Interactive as an Interactive Developer. His Second Life character (Freedom Polonsky) was born in 2005, and he’s very interested in the future of all 3D networked spaces as they relate to media, entertainment, information and education.”

Here’s me in Second Life:

I’m broke, but atleast I can fly.

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