Exploration Assignment

Exploration Assignment

When being in SecondLife, there are many places that you can visit and do just about whatever you want. I have been to a few places for this exploration assignment and they all seem to be very interesting and unique in their own ways. You can even go to places to find out information
about specific things. Who would have thought that you can do such a thing through an online virtual reality environment? I started this assignment off in Svarga.

When I first arrived at Svarga it is a mountainous area with a lake of some sort. When I went to find the oracle it says she is not currently available to give me a fortune. I am in Svarga rather late tonight and I haven’t seen any other avatars yet. I played the big drums at the entrance of the castle, I believe they were called Elven Low-Timp. I also chose to play Elven Horn. After I was done here I went straight for a place called InfoIsland.

All I see when I arrive here is some walkways and a few buildings and some other structures. I first saw a familiar thing when I saw a baseball diamond and since I play baseball here at UCM I figured that’s where I would head to first. When I started exploring this, it just gave me information about baseball and baseball news and even baseball stuff in Japan. After there I headed for the hot air balloon which took me for a tour of info island. After seeing the island I wanted to head towards something that I saw on the tour, which happened to be the island information center which I interactive with the objects to receive interesting things about this place. I then proceeded to find the museum of music where it told me just about anything and everything there is to know about music and its history. Interesting stuff but time to move on to the next place, Greenies.

When I got to greenies I am in a building with a hallway and there is several things that are the color green around me. I believe this sim is some kind of group that when you join you change your avatar into a little green person. Then you can “have fun.” When I reach the main center of this place it seems like a room where you can buy different avatars for yourself that are green and resemble characters like Dracula and a wizard and such. After all the things about greenies and the locked places unless you are a greenie I traveled to Themiskyra.

This place looks like a little village with some very interesting things in it. I took a picture by a fish tank looking thing that has what looks like a shark in it swimming around. I believe this sim seems like it would be here to come and relax. Surina Skallarimson constructed this sim. It has very detailed cottages that would resemble old homes and buildings. At the conclusion of this sim that wraps up my exploration assignment.

Chris Matlock-- Sept. 2 10:27 pm