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secondlife.com. Second Life is a multiplayer virtual world that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online environment. Developed and owned by the San Francisco -based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003, it saw rapid growth for some years and ...
OpenSimulator. OpenSimulator is an open-source server platform originally launched in 2007 for hosting virtual worlds and metaverse environments. It is largely compatible with the virtual world Second Life but full compatibility is not a design goal.
The act of writing a script is called scripting. Scripting language or script language describes a programming language that is used for scripting. [1] Originally, scripting was limited to automating an operating system shell and languages were relatively simple. Today, scripting is more pervasive and some languages include modern features that ...
RMB City is a virtual city in the online world of Second Life, planned and developed by Beijing artist Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy). Launched in 2008 and open to the public since January 2009, RMB City is a platform for experimental creative activities, one in which Cao Fei and her collaborators use different mediums to test the boundaries between virtual and physical existence.
Anshe Chung is an avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online game Second Life. Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" by CNN, [1] Graef has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies. Her work has been discussed in Business Week, [2] Fortune [3 ...
Second Life was the first public virtual world that did not offer any topic, or theme. Each user is free to create their own objects, personalized environment, and / or to hold any events of their choice. This immediately sparked the idea of creating meeting rooms and virtual classrooms, first within academia, quickly followed by corporate ...
Libraries in virtual worlds. Libraries in virtual worlds are part of an immersive 3D environment that can be used for entertainment and educational purposes. [1] Due to increasing interest in digital services, some libraries and librarians have established virtual services in Second Life and other virtual worlds. [2]
PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [ 6 ] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [ 6 ] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain.