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Second Life - sh.itjust.works
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acceptable as long as you do not overdo it with frequency. Second Life is a 3D
virtual world where almost all the content is user generated. It has been around
since 2002 and publicly since 2003 and has developed significantly since then.
Unlike games Second Life and other virtual worlds do not have built-in goals,
levels or similar mechanisms. You can think of it more like a place or a
platform. Individual locations and groups in Second Life might offer some or all
the features a game might have but Second Life (SL) as a whole does not. Second
Life has a wide range of ages, countries of origin, languages, interests and
professions among its residents and is not limited to the typical gamer. It
offers many activities from building, landscaping and decoration over taking
pictures and visiting art galleries, attending parties and live concerts,
roleplay, travel by and racing a wide variety of vehicles in addition to the
built-in teleports, combat both in vehicles and on foot as well as a number of
adult activities. And of course you can make great friends and do all of those
together. The Second Life servers are often referred to as “The Grid” of if you
want to distinguish the production and preview grids as Agni and Aditi. The
OpenSim project is essentially an open source implementation of the server side
of SL. The Second Life client is called a viewer and apart from the official one
there is a number of popular third party options. Second Life Website
[https://secondlife.com/] Second Life Marketplace
[https://marketplace.secondlife.com/] Second Life Maps
[https://maps.secondlife.com/] Second Life Grid Status
[https://status.secondlifegrid.net/] Second Life Wiki
[https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Main_Page] Second Life Knowledge Base
[https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/] Linden Lab Wiki Page
about Official and Third Party Viewers
[https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Downloads] Official SL Flickr Group
[https://www.flickr.com/groups/secondlifeofficial/] Grid Survey
[http://www.gridsurvey.com/]
This community is meant to be about any content and discussions related to the Second Life virtual world / metaverse. It is both for current SL residents and people curious about Second Life who have questions or need help getting started.
Sorta surprised to hear second life is still a thing.
Oh, it has been updated regularly over the years. Currently they are in the process of adding PBR to the viewer’s rendering. Avatars today look (if they choose to look that way) very realistic compared to the early days.