Virtual world already dwarfs New York
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Forget expanding Dubai, forget sprawling Las Vegas, forget the mushrooming skyscrapers of Shanghai. There's a city state which, at just five years old, has enjoyed such turbocharged growth that its square mileage already dwarfs New York. Not bad for a place that doesn't exist.
Second Life is a virtual world that lives only on the worldwide web.Sitting at their real-life PCs, its users pilot a digital character, or avatar, around a 3D simulation of the real world. It even has its own economy in which people design virtual items such as clothes, jewellery or furniture, or buy and develop land, then sell to other users in Linden dollars, which can be converted to real money. There are around 55,000 people making money from Second Life, a few of them millionaires, but there are con artists and fraudsters too.
Second Life is a virtual world that lives only on the worldwide web.Sitting at their real-life PCs, its users pilot a digital character, or avatar, around a 3D simulation of the real world. It even has its own economy in which people design virtual items such as clothes, jewellery or furniture, or buy and develop land, then sell to other users in Linden dollars, which can be converted to real money. There are around 55,000 people making money from Second Life, a few of them millionaires, but there are con artists and fraudsters too.
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