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Fantasy lives flourish in virtual world of Second Life
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Moments after being born in Second Life, Knut Graff rose into the sky, flew through a mountain and headed over an ocean to explore a virtual world that boasts nearly three million inhabitants.
A second later, the neophyte crash landed in the sea. Fortunately, he can breathe underwater.
Welcome to Second Life -- an animated world where real people use proxies, called avatars, to "live" alternate identities in a virtual community, complete with homes, colleges, museums, shopping, dance clubs and even "avatar sex".
It's not a video game. It's a virtual society that parallels real life.
"In Second Life, people live their fantasies, for good or for bad," said Austin Morris of US-based QT Labs, which specializes in establishing firms...
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