Open Doors To Innovation Publication: Information Week Date: Oct 17 2005 Reporter: Larry Greenemeier It takes a lot of horsepower to create the 3-D virtual world known as Second Life, where users can build digital avatars to their likenesses, participate in a virtual economy that lets them purchase real estate and construct buildings, and fly through pixelated blue skies over a 100-square-kilometer computer-generated campus. In the past, the sticker shock of buying and managing the 1,400 CPUs and associated software needed to power this rapidly expanding massive multiplayer online game would have been enough to curb the enthusiasm of even the best-funded startup. Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Larry Greenemeier See other articles published by Information Week Today's headlines Headlines for Oct 17, 2005
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