Second Life Nissan X-Trail Ski Resort June 11, 2008
Posted by champion in : Sightseeing , 2 commentsNot long ago because of shopping, I visited Japanese Nissan X-trail Island in Second Life. Not only commodities here are high quality, but also buildings and facilities are planed and designed carefully. Especially the eminent ski resort in the center of island, it’s really incredible.
Buildings on the island are so attractive that you can’t help going inside. The white gleaming peak in the distance is exactly the ski resort.
High quality internal decoration
This pond makes me feel good. There happened to be an artificial lake in Villamood, so I bought old trees and small wooden boat home.
When you close to ski resort, you can experience its high elevation.
It must be exciting when you ski? You can have a try if you’re interested in skiing and shopping.
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http://blogs.villamood.com/james/2008/04/02/214/
Second Life Galveston Island, Texas, USA
Posted by champion in : Sightseeing , 1 comment so farGalveston is an island in Texas. On http://www.galveston.com this official website, you can get many imformation about Galveston such as historical, political, economic and education, future prospection, life and scenic spots, traffic and hotel lodgings, realtime images and weather conditions and so on. What special is that from (http://galveston.com/secondlife) this website I noted that they built a Galveston in Second Life,too. Since in real life we can’t immediately flight there for a trip, it’s a great idea to have a look at the virtual Galveston island.
When you arrive at the island the first sight you will see is Galveston Historical Center.
Many old pictures and writing introductions are preserved in this center.
The structure introductions of Galveston breakwater.
You can choose any video podcasts whatever you want.
Then we arrive at Galveston Welcome Center.
There are also some related introduction videos inside.
After leaving Welcome Center you will easy to see three arresting building TX-Moody Garden.
This building is about marine animals, if you take a look at inside from outside, you will see a tunnel formed with enormous aquarium, just enjoy the pleasure of being surrounded by fishes.
Then you walk into another building, there are two IMAX 3D rooms and some program lists, you can watch them by your time.
When you walk out of TX-Moody Garden, to see Hilton hotel on the sea.
You should relax yourself after you check in, you can have a walk on the breakwater where we just talked about, and discretionally enjoy the scenery of island. If you distantly overlook the island, there are still many distinctive buildings there and you should go around if you have time.
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http://blogs.villamood.com/james/2008/04/02/199/
Second House of Sweden
Posted by champion in : Sightseeing , 3 commentsSecond 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”.
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? 
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.
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.
15. Great lordly gate
16. Second House of Sweden is inspired by the real-life House of Sweden in Washington.
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.
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.
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.
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.
