SECOND LIFE

Welcome Island in Second Life

When you enter Second Life for the first time, you'll start on Welcome Island. This area is designed to quickly teach you the basics of Second Life, including: walking, zooming with your camera, chatting, standing/sitting, flying, and teleporting. Along the way, you'll be rewarded with a few entertaining surprises.

Push the Limits

Enter a world with infinite possibilities and live a life without boundaries, guided only by your imagination. Do what you love, with the people you love, from anywhere in the world.

Go Anywhere

Explore destinations inspired by real cities, such as Dublin and Tokyo. Visit new spaces unique to Second Life, such as a Renaissance-inspired Camelot or the 3D home for your alma mater. Immerse yourself in any environment you can imagine: watch the sunset from a mountaintop, dance the night away in a club or plumb the depths of the ocean on a scuba trip. 

Wander

The sky is hardly the limit in Second Life. You'll journey through fictional landscapes and regions inspired by the real world. Soar on the back of a dragon, race through the littered alleys of a cyberpunk future, or stroll through a historically accurate Victorian garden. Second Life has it all.

Travel

Travel by foot, by flying, or else jump in a car, tank, plane or magic carpet. With infinite possibilities come limitless modes of transportation - why not drive a fancy car or sail a pirate ship? Or just spread your arms and take to the sky. 

Make Friends

Prepare to socialize like never before. Millions of Residents from around the world have made Second Life their online home, so there is no lack of people to meet or old friends to reconnect with. 

Find Events

Something fun and exciting is always happening in Second Life. From raves and concerts to lectures and screenings, there are plenty of events to explore. You can browse them from your event calendar.

Get Cultured

Looking for culture? Second Life is full of museums, art exhibits, book clubs and theater. A virtual Shakespeare acting troop routinely presents the best of the Bard, while the Smithsonian recently launched the Latino Virtual Museum.

A Community for Every Interest

Second Life is also full of furries, ninjas, steampunk balls and an enormous virtual recreation of Burning Man. Thousands of vampires seek victims alongside wandering elves, marauding cyberpunks and club-going Goths. Come join the party.

Join Groups

Want to find people who share your interests? Second Life has thousands of Resident-created Groups ready for you to join - everything from book clubs to ninja clans. Didn't find one you like? Create a new Group and build your own Second Life community. 

Share Ideas

Take conference calls to the next level. Use our free voice chat to hold meetings or hang out with friends from around the world, all in your own virtual office or living room.

Create

Second Life is a playground for your imagination. Design, build, code, perform and collaborate. Expand the boundaries of your creativity.

Be Visionary

Whether you realize your architectural dreams, direct or produce a film, create or curate an art exhibit, or launch a fashion line, Second Life is a limitless platform for your imagination.

Plan Events

Organize a low-key party or plan an epic bash. Build a car or design a city. Once your ideas come to life, you can exhibit or even sell them. 

Collaborate

Want to get creative with your friends? In Second Life, creativity doesn't have to be a solo activity - designing, building, coding and performing can all be collaborative activities. Invite a friend or three and let your imagination run wild.

Enjoy Life

Second Life isn't just a haven for artists. Whether you're here to meet others, to conduct business or to have fun, enjoy a world created by people like you, for people like you.

Virtual Jobs

Virtual job opportunities in Second Life abound. There are full time dancers, models, bouncers, architects, fashion designers, psychologists, event planners and DJs, to name a few.

Open a Store

Unleash your inner entrepreneur: open a store in Second Life. Fashion boutiques, car dealerships, hotels, even amusement parks - you'll find them all here. Launch any business you can dream of - not only is it fun, it can be profitable.

Get Famous

Develop a hit product or design a successful game, and you might count yourself among the Second Life digerati! Once other residents get word of your sensational new invention, you might be the toast of the town. 

Sell Virtual Land

Become a land baron. Buy land, develop property, manufacture mansions and sell, sell, sell! Second Life's most successful land baroness even landed on the cover of Business Week.

Get Educated

Educators worldwide are discovering the limitless academic possibilities of Second Life.