What The Platform Can Do For You

Create Your World, The Way You Want It
Purchase and develop a "Virtual Land Estate," and become the master of your own virtual world. With powerful Estate management tools, choose to run an Estate for the benefit of just your own customers, employees, or partners - or you can choose to open up your world to all of the users of the Second Life Grid. Fully configurable Estate controls allow you to interact with the virtual world or retain any amount of privacy or security you need.

Increase Your Organization's Productivity
Many organizations are using the Second Life Grid today to enhance their productivity by focusing on internal business uses such as training and simulation. Others engage with their customers through interviews, recruiting, and product research. You can reduce travel costs and downtime by substituting use of the Second Life Grid for real world events and meetings. Prototypes can be created quickly and inexpensively

Collaborate in Real-time
The Second Life Grid enables participants in different environments and locations to collaborate in real time in 3D space. You can walk through a new piece of equipment, engage with a scripted training simulation, or cooperatively design a new workspace.

Improve Business Communication
The Second Life Grid provides multiple channels of communication, including images, audio, video, text and voice, with both groups and individuals. The platform supports multiple languages, and real-time text chat translators are available. Educators are using the Second Life Grid as platform of choice for a range of distance learning options from entire virtual campuses, to classes, office hours, meetings and presentations. A visible indicator of speech and spatial 3D-voice makes it easy to identify the speaker among those present.

Discover Innovative Ways to Teach, Learn, and Collaborate
Discover innovative ways to teach soft skills, including training, and collaborative team building exercises. Before the Second Life Grid, distance learning over the Internet has rarely been anything more than disconnected people passively viewing slides and videos. On the Second Life Grid, learning is a hands-on experience that simulates the feel of a classroom, or better yet, field work without the cost and challenges of venturing into the field.

Reach A Global Audience
Millions of users from over 200 different countries have registered to use the Second Life Grid. Unlike the World Wide Web, where text-based media usually confines users to websites of their own language, the 3-D environment of the Second Life Grid communicates digital culture in a manner that encourages cross-cultural tourism and collaboration.