Week 8 Virtual worlds

Second Life enables real time interaction and this could be a useful medium for networking and sharing of knowledge. This may be of lesser importance to the bulk of users who would be more drawn to the visual and entertainment attractions of the virtual space. Although Second Life could be used as a means to find and retrieve information it is questionable that this would be easier than traditional databases. It is possible that users would be less academic and be more interested in interactive animation. Those looking for academic information are more likely to use conventional web browsers rather than the more complex process of constructing and navigating avatars around a virtual world.