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Introduction: Welcome Posted: July 21, 2008 | Author: hilary | Filed under: blog | Tags: second life , virtual worlds | 1 Comment » Hello, and welcome to everyone who found this site via Torley’s story on the Second Life blog ! I lead the Immersive Media Lab at J&W; University . Several of our projects have utilized Second Life, including Virtual Morocco (cultural exchange and tourism promotion for the country of Morocco) and SLMetrics (a study of behavior modeling in virtual environments). This isn’t a Second Life blog, but you will find LSL scripts and other related ephemera around. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this site, or find out more about me at HilaryMason.com .
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