Second life is virtual world in web, where people do many activities by controlling avatar. For example, chatting and watching video and playing games. The inside of the world of second life is pretty similar world as real life. Even though there are many web services or pages which require users to create original avatar, second life is the best example. I used to be a second life user. It was just for class activity, but I created my avatar and travelled second life. When I created my avatar, I found many option, gender, skin colour, hair colour etc… I tried to make it look similar as me, but unfortunately I could not. It is possible to create totally different look characters. In the class we have a class. Guest lecture, who were in different place in real world, took us gallery and showed us many works in second line. This was pretty unique experience for me, because our body was not but we were there. Also I have heard a company had a workshop in second life, where people had communication by chatting or voice chatting through their avatars. This shows the interaction between real world and virtual world. I am not keen to virtual world activity, and do not have big passion on my avatars, but in fact some avatar have specific identity, which is called “digital identity” in reading. Also the avatars experience can be transferred user’s experience. However, I think it is still digital experience which can not be instead of real experience.
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