Photos: Second Life gets down to business

How do Microsoft, Nasa, Nokia and Peugeot look in the virtual world

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By Tim Ferguson, 31 October 2008 16:33

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With interest around virtual worlds hotting up again, silicon.com made another expedition into Second Life to check out what some of the world's biggest businesses are getting up to.

There are organisations from a huge range of sectors plying their trade in Second Life in interesting and unusual ways. Meanwhile tech companies who jumped into Second Life at the beginning are continuing to experiment with the medium.

This is Nasa's CoLab where people can find out about Nasa and participate in community meetings every Tuesday to decide how exactly the space is used.

Picture credit: Second Life/Linden Lab

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1. anonymous

Surely a clossal waste of time, it just seems to be adding another layer to doing business which seems a lot more complicated and long winded than real life.
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