The virtual world Second Life is growing rapidly
- Second Life (SL) was launched on June 23, 2003, by Linden Research, Inc. Today, it has 16 million residents.
- The large influx of residents has brought an accompanying significant growth in the amount of land, total user hours and the in-world economy.
- Today, residents spend more than 400 million hours a year in SL. That's almost half a billion hours.
- They own 2 billion square meters of land (sqm).
- Resident-to-resident financial transactions are about $400 million a year. That's nearly half a billion dollars, which is a measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life.
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