An international team of computer specialists is reportedly claiming that their digital reproduction of ancient Rome is the most complete simulation ever of a historic city...

'Rome Reborn 1.0' as the digital reproduction is named, shows almost the whole of Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power way back in AD 320.

A true-to-life 3D model, 'Rome Reborn 1.0' gives users complete freedom, and they can even enter buildings in the public domain, including the Roman Senate House, the Colosseum, or the Temple of Venus that was ancient Rome's largest and most popular place of worship.

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A Japanese MP has opened a cyber office in the Internet-based virtual world Second Life.

Kan Suzuki says he wants to discuss new policies with net citizens, deliver lectures and also hold meetings.

But Suzuki, who is seeking a re-election in the upper house in July, could be breaking the electoral law, reports the BBC.

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By Paul McCloskey

Santa Clara University is debuting its new library--even though it won't be finished until next fall--in Second Life, the online virtual community.

The Second Life environment gives SCU community members a sense of what it would look like inside the building once it is built.

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Every day, people spend more than $2m on goods and services in the three-dimensional online fantasy world called Second Life. Land, houses, tables and chairs, clothes, entertainment - pretty much anything that people can buy in real life is for sale in Second Life. It is one of the most popular of the growing number of "virtual worlds" inhabited by avatars, electronic characters that can resemble human beings or anything else, from weird aliens to animals.

It is not just individuals that inhabit these worlds: companies from IBM to Reuters have set up offices, hold meetings or advertise on Second Life. People do things in these virtual worlds that, in real life, could result in imprisonment. Paying a child for sex, for example.

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