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Friday, November 21, 2008
University of Alabama building 3D virtual campus in Internet's popular Second Life - STAN DIEL, Birmingham News
Imagine a world where people can change the color of their skin or the circumference of their waist, where gravity is just an option. A place where your surroundings are limited only by your creativity. A place where the University of Alabama doesn't have a football team - yet. Some UA students next spring will begin attending class on a virtual campus being built on Second Life, a Web-based world that is part video game, part chat room, part busy main street. Visitors navigate the three-dimensional world using avatars, animated representations of themselves. Rick Houser, a professor in UA's school of education who is helping to build the virtual campus, said graduate students in education next spring will be able to walk or fly their avatars into a classroom for a course called School, Culture and Society.
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