Friday, 28 October 2016

Second Life is an online game that relate to 3D virtual world, it is a 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents.  The first version was publish on 2002, and the test version released in 2003 to the public. The users can build the things they want in the game, i think this is the reason that Second life become popular.






Second Life runs on servers owned by a company called Linden Lab That is based in San Francisco, California. For now day, Linden Lab become a very famous company which they are developing the VR (Virtual Reality). Ebbe Altberg is the current CEO of Linden Lab, he work more than 25 years in Linden Lab and creating software used by hundreds of millions of users.
Second Life is a online game,so it can only play on the internet not the mobile, desktop, computer and laptop can play this game. The user can play this game to meet some new friends because Second Life allow the user interact with other users, including chatting in text or voice, the pretty much cool functions in the game is you can use your voice to chat with friends and build up the geometric models. 
For the strengths of Second Life, the user can build the building in the game, they can meet some new friends which can develop their communication skills. Learning other countries culture because they can travel other countries without leaving the home, they just need the computer and internet. Also the architect can show their product to the others and ask them hows their product. 

For the weaknesses, the image quality is very low in Second Life, their are many competitors such as GTA, minecraft, their image quality are quite good compare to Second Life