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Paula Simões did a reply on the previous post about second life. Go read it as it is quite good and them come back for my re-replys.

Paula: You fail to point a single source of real revenue, the one that is capable of generating more revenue. You are counting on universities to keep pouring cash into the system? That is the worst Business Model ever.
And even believing that Universities would continue giving SL money because it saves them elsewhere:

One of the best advantages of SL is simulation. There are many examples, taken from several Universities: Law students practicing in a court room; medicine students practicing with virtual patients; students creating architecture models; etc.

I can barely agree with the first one, but the others? Architecture models? Medicine students practicing on a model? SL is a poor excuse for a simulated 3D world. The 3rd person perspective kills any lessons one might learn for architecture purposes. Just try to design a real house in SL and you end up walking over every peace of furniture there. And practicing a delicate surgery in a virtual model? Maybe practicing the theoretical steps would be possible but more than that?

Why would a company want to be on SL? That is the real issue. Find a BM that is capable of generating real revenue and maybe we can find a common ground. Until them, for me, it is just a souped up academic experiment.