Life or Something Like it

摘要

If you could reinvent yourself, what choices would you make? Would you be tall or short, heavy or thin, outgoing or shy? Or would you become a different species, such as a dog or a cat? In Second Life, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from Linden Lab, players can be anyone, or anything, they ever wanted to be within this immersive, realistic 3D world. "Second Life is a place where you can completely stretch your imagination and the boundaries of reality by exploring a personal fantasy that is outside the realm of possibility within real life," says Robin Harper, senior vice president of marketing and community development at Linden Lab, which was founded by the former CTO of RealNetworks, a streaming media company. "You can do anything you've dreamed about doing in your 'first' life but can't do or haven't done. In fact, our players often use the terms RL and SL—nomenclature for their real life and second life."