One way in which virtual worlds can be used is helping employees get together for meetings and conferences. In the article "Going to the Virtual Office in Second Life," Mark Tutton writes that companies are using Second Life to help personnel in the company collaborate more easily. The major managers in the company could confer with each other while being on different continents instead of traveling to a certain location.
The pros of virtual worlds are that they help people communicate more easily and help in creating virtual situations for training and learning purposes. In the article "Avatar II: The Hospital," Stephanie Simon writes about how Second Life is used to train nurses make swift decisions in dire situations. Some cons of virtual worlds are the risks of privacy and that they can be mistaken to be the real world.
Virtual worlds are able to induce the creativity in people because of the vast number of activities one can do in them. Second Life has been used for many purposes such as for businesses, promotions, and artists. Virtual worlds will eventually look like the real world but with even more content because of the unlimited space available in virtual worlds.
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