Week 1: Session 2: Second Life Seminar

And so begins the virtual life of Matthew Ixito. In today’s session, we finally got onto Second Life. We learned how to create and change your avatar and a small introduction on how to create new objects in second life. Most if not all of the work done in Second Life will be on the RIT Island. The island is full of things that will help us terraformers. There is the entire library database accessible on the island, there is a sandbox to create new objects, and there is even an amphitheater for Professor H. to conduct a virtual class. This whole program is new to me and all of the members of the class, so this session served as a Second Life tutorial. A couple of former RIT students who have started Second Life business’s gave the class a detailed explanation of many of the tools in Second Life. Many of the students, including myself, were focused on appearance. A couple of us even went to malls in the Second Life world and got free clothes. So students had different outfits such as a tuxedo. I have to say that this was very interesting and fun. Making yourself in a virtual world is a new concept to all of us and many students stayed extra time to work out a few things. I still would like to change a little bit of my appearance, and I’m sure I will along the way. Still no actual “commercializing” yet, and still no business teams formed. Looking forward to next week’s classes to begin to form our businesses!