Second Life grows to the size of Cedar County, Iowa
Filed under: Economy, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds
Weighing in at 1.5 billion square metres (579 square miles, plus change), Linden Lab's virtual world Second Life stacks up at the same size as Cedar County, Iowa, which we've chosen to give you a convenient physical world comparison for size. The figure comes from Linden Lab CFO John Zdanowski's (Zee Linden) quarterly metrics report for Q2 2008.
A sudden surge in land area was attributed to a drop in simulator prices earlier in the year, along with changes to purchasing conditions and capacity of Void simulators (also known as Openspace simulators).
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