Avatars in Second Life

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-	Phew! Big topic - too late to tackle now!	+	"Avatar" is the term for a virtual body used to represent the Second Life user. Although an ancient word, it derives its SL meaning from Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk sci-fi classic, ''Snow Crash'' - a book that inspired many developers to build virtual worlds, and that also gave us the term "Metaverse", now taken to refer to the (distant!) 3D internet.

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"Avatar" is the term for a virtual body used to represent the Second Life user. Although an ancient word, it derives its SL meaning from Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk sci-fi classic, Snow Crash - a book that inspired many developers to build virtual worlds, and that also gave us the term "Metaverse", now taken to refer to the (distant!) 3D internet.