The Virtual Reality
of Seducity and Second Life

Seducity and Second Life are each a "virtual reality" world or a "virtual community" instead of a roleplay/gaming world.  Most of the time you can just be yourself; if you do roleplay or play around with costumes, others around you are aware that you're doing that.

Aspects of the virtual reality include making friends (many wind up being phone friends and real-world friends too), shopping, decorating homes, and having guests over for parties.  You can even undress your virtual bodies and have virtual sex (also known as virtual reality sex).

virtual reality
n. Abbr. VR.  A computer simulation of a real or imaginary system that enables a user to perform operations on the simulated system and shows the effects in real time. - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

virtual reality
(VR)
<games> A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational
comedy, and "true confessions" magazines. In a virtual reality forum (such as Usenet's news:alt.callahans
newsgroup or the MUD experiments on Internet and elsewhere), interaction between the participants is written
like a shared novel complete with scenery, "foreground characters" that may be personae utterly unlike the people who
write them, and common "background characters" manipulable by all parties. The one iron law is that you may not write
irreversible changes to a character without the consent of the person who "owns" it, otherwise, anything goes. - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe

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