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Second House of Sweden June 11, 2008

Posted by champion in : Sightseeing , trackback

Second House of Sweden was established by 400 thousand SEK(63 thousand USD) to introduce Swedish culture and attract players to visit Sweden. Although it’s not allowed to issue passports and visas, the embassy not only tells visitors how to get these papers in real life, but also be a portal of Sweden in Second Life. In the embassy you can look around many culture and arts relate to Sweden, meanwhile it also shows many website imformation relate to Sweden to visitors. Besides, it even let visitors teleport to other related Second Life stores or service places. Now let’s make a visit to Second House of Sweden..

1. Second House of Sweden is located in two group islands “Swedish institute” and “Swedish Orientation”.
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2. The airscape of Swedish islands, the first sight you see is sauna facilities. The embassy is in the most distance, total area is “65,536 + 58,352 + 6,992 m2″, available prims “15,000 x 2″, Swedish institute is mainly divided into two parts. First part is main building, it used 9129 prims / 58352 m2, the outdoor concert hall which is in front left of the embassy used 1441 prims, occupied 6992 m2. As to Swedish Orientation, total area is 65536 m2, contains sauna facilities and guide signs totally used 5556 prims.

3. Enter sauna room, you will see signs that tell Swedish sauna culture in brief.

4. Here provides free bath towels and swimsuits for visitors.

5. Before you officially look around this place, how about a sauna equipments for relax? randimg

6. New members who sign up from Second House of Sweden’s website will be leaded here. The embassy thoughtfully provides guides for new avatars to tell them how to keep going.

7. The starting point indicates four steps. Step 1 Welcome speech, Step 2, 3 Use the arrow keys to follow the path, Step 4 Enter the embassy when you reach terminal.
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8. Look toward the first stage.

9. Stage 1 Use “alt” key for better view angle.

10. Stage 2 How to chat with people and send messages.

11. Stage 3 You will get a Swedish flag shirt and taught how to wear.

12. Goal ! How to customize your look.

13. Walk or click the sign that you will be directly teleported to front of the embassy.

14. The teleportation of Swedish embassy.
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15. Great lordly gate
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16. Second House of Sweden is inspired by the real-life House of Sweden in Washington.
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17. The reception seperately indicates the embassy(SL)’s service time and the real-life’s

18. Click the sign and see what’s coming soon from the screen.

19. They hope you provide valued opinions.

20. Hire new staff

21. Second House of Sweden construct team.

22. How to participate in groups to get news and events.

23. Click the sign and you will enter an airtight space like globe, it indicates the location of every Swedish embassy and consulate in real world.

24. Inside the sphere

25. Click the indication then you can run through all related websites

26. They introduce other Second Life places relate to Sweden in Second Life, Click it and you will be teleported there.

27. Vacancies available.

28. Three changing rooms here, They might provide some Swedish traditional costumes.

29. This bookshelf is just like website banner that introduces website information relates to Sweden.
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30. Swedish famous IKEA, you can get some free virtual furniture here.

31. Sweden paint in the vestibule, click it and you will see related introductions and websites.

32. Photo exhibition room, the embassy bought 60 copyright of Sweden life photography works, click to Flickr and it’s free to take.
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33. Raoul Wallenberg (1912-?), As a Swedish diplomat, in the later period of World War II, passed making false diplomatic passports, and successfully saved thousands Jews who will be jailed to Nazi concentration camps in Budapest. 1945 he was arrested to jail by Soviets, from that moment on he disappeared..? Click and you can enter his office.

34. Raoul Wallenberg, photographed in his office, 1944.
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35. The entrance of his office, it looks dark inside.

36. It seems that you walk into a time tunnel.

37. The date on calendar stays on Jan 16, 1945, the day Raoul Wallenberg been arrested.

38. The spot out of window is 3D image, too.

39. The other corners in the embassy.

40. This picture announces there will be a restaurant opened here.

41. Click the sign and you will be sent to the roof of coffee shop.

42. Foods here are all free. You can take away the food you like and also can get the recipe of food for real world.

43. The roof is also used to introduce website information relates to Sweden.

44. To see the embassy from another angle.

45. Outside view

46. The embassy’s outdoor concert.

47. After you seat yourself, you can switch your view to full screen.

48. You also can switch left/middle/right three stage viewpoints. No matter where you sit, that would be a top table for you, it’s very different from real world.

The end … I hope that I could see a concert when I came here next time.