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When I began this series of investigative reports on Second Life, one thing I was really looking forward to was to see just how much “science” was going on in Second Life.  I wanted to know is the majority of what happens inworld Social or Academic?

The reality wound up being more complex than I originally thought, being heavily influenced by the perspective of who I was speaking to.  Some people said science was everywhere, while some people said it was a nonexistant community.  After several weeks of digging around I’ve come to some conclusions, and I share them here.

(10:30am Added an addendum to the end of this story)

(2/17/2010 Another addendum)

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Science feature, research, sciencesim, secondlife, virtual worlds

A beta project named “ScienceSim”, aimed at building 3D technologies for visualizing 3D information on the web, will be operating a virtual world for Supercomputing09.  Based on the open source package OpenSim, it’s effectively a Second-Life world for discussion of topics related to SC09.

Full instructions for connecting are available on their website.

ScienceSim » start.

Science conference, opensim, sciencesim, secondlife, supercomputing, virtual environment