Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 3, 2004 @07:44AM from the virtual-taxman-still-evil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a USAToday story, Second Life from Linden Labs is seeing a boom in virtual land trading. The article quotes a player as saying: 'My vision is to buy real estate in Second Life with one or two other investors and make it available to new players as a business', and it seems that 'Large swathes of undeveloped online property, some bearing an uncanny resemblance to a palm-studded West Coast beachfront idyll, are selling for up to $550 an acre.' Second Life uses OpenGL and Ogg-Vorbis running on a Linux grid." S!: We've previously covered Second Life on several occasions over at Slashdot Games.

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Uhh, I have a good one. by Lord+Graga · 2004-06-03 07:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"SCO's statement was virtual real."
slashdotted by agroman · 2004-06-03 07:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Second Life uses OpenGL and Ogg-Vorbis running on a Linux grid.

apparently their website runs on a 486.
Re:advice by artemis67 · 2004-06-03 07:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

buy low, sell high, get out before the crash. ...or, in this case, before the slashdotting.