Metaverse Health

I’m probably stretching the boundaries with claiming this to be a health-related post, but here goes. I’ve covered Second Life‘s Relay for Life previously, and it’s actually running over this weekend and appears it will be as big a success as previous years.

One Second Life resident, Laurence Simon created a machinima called Relay for Death, which aside from being humorous, also has a strong message in favour of the Relay For Life fundraising initiatives:

Health professionals involved with virtual worlds will understand the power of machinima. For those still coming to terms with virtual worlds and health, it’s further proof of the growing maturity of the platform to communicate health messages. Having an engaged population generating their own messages to support health is an ideal sought after – this is an example of it in practice, and it’s fun to boot!