Second Life

 

Hey guys today I will talk about an interesting  world known as Second Life which is an online virtual world, developed by Linden Lab, based in San-Francisco, and launched in 2003.Second Life had approximately 1 million regular users. Many people would call second life a game but let me clear it's not a game, it's an virtual world where you can interact with real peoples and every in game objects. You can also work in game and earn money which i will explain later in this post. Some peoples have earned even millions from it.

 First Impression

When you first create your account for this game then secondlife will provide you a download link for sl client which is just a browser for accessing and interacting with secondlife virtual world. During signup you will be asked to create an avatar but you can customize your avatar anytime later if you want. After installing the client you have to just sign in with your newly created account and you will instantly enter into this virtual world. At first you might find difficulty in understanding and interacting with in game virtual objects but i am sure you will learn enough in 2 or 3 days.

Economy

Secondlife economy is based upon a in game virtual currency known as Linden Dollars. You can trade this currency for actual dollars and this is the way in which you can earn by working in game to earn lindens and cashing it out. Normally 1 dollar is equal to 250 linden dollars. You can deposit or withdraw lindens anytime you want by trading it with real currency. Using of Paypal is highly recommended for transactions.

 

Land ownership

Premium membership allows the Resident to own land, with the first 512 m² (of main land owned by a holder of a Premium account) free of the usual monthly land use fee (referred to by residents as tier, because it is charged in tiers). There is no upper limit on tier; at the highest level, the user pays US$295 for their first 65,536 m². Any land must first be purchased from either Linden Lab or a private seller.There are four types of land regions; mainland, private region, homestead, and openspace. A region comprises an area of 65,536 m2 (16.194 acres) in area, being 256 meters on each side. Mainland regions form one continuous land mass, while private regions are islands. Openspace regions may be either mainland or private, but have lower prim limits and traffic use levels than mainland regions. The owners of a private region enjoy access to some additional controls that are not available to mainland owners; for example, they have a greater ability to alter the shape of the land. Residents must own a region (either mainland or private) to qualify for purchasing an openspace region. 

      Residents can purchase and even rent their land for various purposes or can become a broker. However Linden Lab acknowledges only the landlord as the owner of the land, and will not intervene in disputes between Residents. 

 

Facts

• Secondlife is so much popular that even tech giants like IBM had open there virtual office inside this world.
• With the introduction of VR technology, now you can really feel the game like you are actually in it.
• It has been compared that the grid of secondlife is so large as it is user generated that it's map is astonishingly 140 times bigger than the size of real earth.
• You can create your own in game objects as well as scripts and you can even sell them to earn a lot.

  

    

Sources-

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

NOTE- Hey guys may you would like to get some idea on how you can be a millionaire in secondlife so here's the link to next part ------https://steemit.com/money/@shubham1696/second-life-part-2-ways-to-become-a-real-usd-millionaire-in-this-virtual-world