Second life - Diary

In this visit to the second life I only had a short visit because surprise surprise once again the program crashed and when I got on there it was too slow so due to time I could not stay on as long as I wanted.

In my last post I wanted to go and explore other Islands that avatar’s have designed. From a previous post I explained how someone told me to just type in a word to view an island that related to the search word. I thought that it would be interesting to actually find an island that relates to the real world, so what better place then NEW YORK!! But when I teleported it wasn’t what I expected.


I was teleported to the inside of a tram, which I didn’t realise what it was until I got outside of it. As you can see from the image on the left The designer has put much thought and detail in to the design of the artwork. I feel that it really makes a difference and makes it more appealing to other avatars.


I have took screenshots of a few different examples of the strong detail that has been put into this subway. Even the subway map has been designed nearly exactly to how the original would look like. Now that I am off the island I wonder if I stayed on the tram whether it would move from one island to another? Maybe I should go back and see.


I have now finally found my first strong piece of advertisement. When I was researching information the main thing that stood out besides from people using this virtual world to have a ‘second life’ it is also a fast growing way to advertise companies/ products. I have to say, I haven’t really seen much of this in my time on second life, maybe I have but just never noticed them.


The final image on the right is the final image that I took in New York. They were the entrance to the tram stop and they work when you go through them. The reason why this was the final image was because when I actually got to the main street it was empty!! Not like the New York that I remember. The buildings looked old and grubby, there were a few taxi’s that related to the city theme.

So apart from making it to the city and able to see another island I found New York pretty disappointing. I think I’ll stick to the islands that are the popular ones. I think that the islands that are popular are the type of islands that people want to live in in the real world, hence why they are so popular. I’m not too sure what my next aim will be so until next time.