At lunch today, my colleague and one of my best friends, André Schuster, told me a story. We’ve both been talking a lot about Second Life, and while he was sick this week, he dove in. I’ve been avoiding it due to its obvious time-sink properties, and André’s been trying to get me hot and bothered enough to dive in with him.
He was house shopping in Second Life. One click on an interesting house and the real estate agent appeared before him and started regaling him with the advantages of the place. André seemed a little uncertain, the guy snapped his fingers, and the house was gone, easy as that. Having failed to sell the house, he started on the area: “Look at that view over the bay! And it’s a great sim, nice neighbours, lag-free…”
The social dynamics of the future. It’s irrelevant how loud your neighbours are — you can turn sound off — and it doesn’t matter if their house stinks — you can’t smell it anyway. What’s important to the discerning house buyer of tomorrow is how laggy his neighbours (not to mention the neighbourhood itself) are. Damn, I really need to get in there and take a look.
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Let me know if you sign up. I’ve been swallowing my curiosity on this phenomena for the past year or so. But thinking of it as a way to keep up with the far-flung friends could be just the rationalization I need.
I’ve signed up. Name’s MB McMillan. Get in touch… but only if you’re lag-free.
cool. i have been contemplating a lot ‘bout that as well. will sign up asap too.
hope you’ll check out this real estate company here http://anshechung.com/ before deciding on your home. mrs chung actually lives of 2nd life. apparently she has already earned about 200 grand US by purchasing land of linden labs and developing it.
Yep, hot subject. I’ve had a bit more of a look, and there’s an article coming…
do i need to say more?
http://www.getafirstlife.com/