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Discovering Second Life

I took the plunge. I had heard about Second Life before — mostly on Slashdot. I spent a few minutes browsing Google Video and came across one of the Google TechTalks titled Glimpse Inside a Metaverse: The Virtual World of Second Life.

Essentially it was Philip Rosedale and Cory Ondrejka from Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, giving a talk on the technology that powers the world of Second Life.

So far I've played Star Wars Galaxies (which in my opinon was mutilated by the SOE) and dabbled with Planetside (after the downfall of the Tribes series), but otherwise anything MMO (WoW, etc) has not interested me as a "Gamer", and so far I hadn't much thought about looking at it from a developer point of view.

And that's pretty much where the presentation caught my attention. Particularly the objective to switch to a Mono powered platform.

So I've signed up (my Second Life name is Mark Barrett) and ran around aimlessly to find out what's up.

Posted: March 13th, 2006 under Second Life.
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