Comments on: Is life in a virtual world virtually worthless?

By: clueless

clueless — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:28:09 +0000

Question: In SL is the user able to have “relations” with other users?

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:46:59 +0000

I don’t know. I find it hard to relate to the virtual world. I’m guess I’m a virtual virgin. My sister spends a lot of time in 2nd Life. I’ve tried logging in a few times, but I just can’t get my head wrapped around it!

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:48:43 +0000

Hi Colin - I have a Weblo account setup and wrote about it briefly here:
http://www.vtoreality.com/2006/weblocom-and-metaversenet/277/

I’d be interested in learning more about the service from other experienced players (?), drop me an email at td at vtoreality.com

By: colin trethewey

colin trethewey — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:22:04 +0000

I have another virtual world angle I thought you might find intriguing.

Weblo.com has been dubbed “Monopoly on Steroids”… a virtual copy of every city, state, and property is up for sale and people are spending, and making real money playing…

At Weblo the virtual Governor of California is a criminal lawyer who paid $53,000 to buy Cali. He earns money from every Weblo transaction in the state…

I would be happy to get you contact info for some players so you can get some first hand accounts or set up an account for you. I also attached a recent press release about Seattle reselling for $2000 making the first Seattle mayor a major proift..

Here’s our Social 2.0 news release: http://weblo.com/pr1/

Please let me know either way if this is of interest…

Thanks, Colin

Colin Trethewey, Director of Media Relations
Weblo.com Inc.

By: Quick, somebody show the anti-VR crowd it’s a multi-billion dollar business » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:38:11 +0000

[...] As previously reported by Caliandris, during Friday’s 314th radio show my wife admitted she felt virtual worlds were a waste of time. I tried giving her various examples to show value far beyond what appears to the casual observer. She doesn’t read VTOR, at least to my knowledge, so it’s doubtful she’ll see this and similar posts unless specifically pointed here. Through my normal reading I came the following article from USA Today that talks about various real world uses of virtual reality in business. [...]

By: Weirdharold

Weirdharold — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:16:12 +0000

Very Well put Caliandris, I have been amazed with how some people have absolutely no interest in Second Life. Many are either chat fans or hard core gamers and still never see the opportunity Second Life affords.. some because the learning curve is more difficult… some because there isn’t some obvious immediate goal to be reached to gratify their ego. They never take the time to learn the challenge, or how satisfying accomplishing a true growth inside that “living” environment can be.

I have read many saying how boring the “game” is… I have asked myself, do they have any creative imagination, but then again; maybe as my name implies I am “WEIRD”.

I loved this article…WELL DONE!