Second Life is going to be an interesting experience in IST 110H. With all the frustration and inefficiency from the bugs that the "game" or "online world" encounters, it will be difficult to get through this unit. I added Second Life a while ago when the motorcycle event was up for extra credit. I spent a total of about 4-6 hours on modding my sport bike. It had dual exhaust pipes, and was red and black. However, I missed the motorcycle event! I had no idea what time it was going to be and never got a chance to find out. Oh well. It was fun interacting with some friends and strangers on Second Life. It was also fun customizing my avatar, which was of course the sexy male avatar. I even persuaded my friend from high school, Tim, to download and install Second Life to play with me. After passing the tutorials, we were free to roam. I showed him Istania and the different buildings in it. There is even a Stadium in the sky somewhere! Second Life was fun for about 2 weeks. I haven't touched it since then.
This entry in the blog called Harvard Extended highlights the problems in Second Life.
Comments (2)
Second Life is really buggy. I've had it crash a lot on my computer, especially if the server is highly populated. The graphics take a long time to load, too. I think they need to standardize the textures a bit more to help decrease the lagginess and bandwidth usage and increase the load times.
Posted by Tim Nary | November 17, 2007 1:47 PM
Posted on November 17, 2007 13:47
I'm surprised you even had Second Life running that early. I really think I just had the worst experience with getting it run.
My only option was to dual boot with Windows XP and install it on XP.
Posted by Josh Hepworth | December 14, 2007 2:18 AM
Posted on December 14, 2007 02:18