Double life

In the last issue of Computerra , the game was chosen as the main theme (right?) Of Second Life . Today, the article moved online (this happens with all numbers exactly one week after publication), so I decided to write here links to these articles.

Into the other world
People live everywhere. Including in the virtual worlds. One of them is called "Second Life". What is happening there? The most amazing thing is that toy dragons are not killed there. They are engaged in an even more strange thing. Just take and live.
Leonid Levkovich-Maslyuk

The best life in three-dimensional online: Life in the metavers as part of "just life"
I will not even discuss multiplayer online games - where there is the concept of quest, where there is gameplay. I will discuss metavers - multiplayer online worlds where there are no game goals, no game rules, no winnings or losses.
Anatoly Levenchuk

Life is not in the cradle: Metavers is a part of reality
For many years, the augmented reality has been described as the result of the use of special semi-transparent display glasses that superimpose a computer-synthesized image on the image of the surrounding world visible to the eye.
Anatoly Levenchuk
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Economy 2: the real sector. Production and exchange in the virtual world Economics is the science of human activity, which studies the production and exchanges of limited goods, that is, such goods that exist in quantities insufficient to supply them with all those who wish.
Victor Agroskin