When colleges set up shop in Second Life, the increasingly popular virtual community, they must face some tough decisions on architecture and landscape design. Building a digital campus from scratch could be a pretty interesting project — especially in a world populated by shape-shifting avatars and physics-defying characters.
LaSalle College, in Montreal, recently opened its Second Life satellite — a campus “made almost entirely of glass” that lets students levitate to class, according to The Gazette. Sounds pretty cool. But we’re wondering: What have other colleges come up with for their Second Life campuses? How exactly does the process of creating a cybercampus work? —Brock Read
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