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Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Uhh, I have a good one. by Lord+Graga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "SCO's statement was virtual real."

  2. Re:chicks and boats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent UP! Hilarity!

  3. slashdotted by agroman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    apparently their website runs on a 486.

  4. Re:advice by artemis67 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  5. I'd pay to fly an A-10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is one sweet aircraft. Unless of course you're talking about paying to fly a simulated aircraft, that's different.