First UK law firm opens 'virtual' office in Second Life

No doubt most people have seen the headlines regarding the first uk law firm (Field Fisher Waterhouse) opening a 'virtual office' in Second Life. I read the article about it at Times Online and thought it might be interesting to try and give it a go, and see if I could find the 'virtual office' of Field Fisher Waterhouse.

So I installed Second Life on my computer, signed up, it was all quite simple and easy to perform. I created my avatar and named him 'Law Apprentice Oh', for some reason you have to give your avatar a family name, I chose 'Oh'. I am guessing it's for when you create more than one avatar it can then group them under one surname.

I logged into the game and was immediately struck by how slow it was, it took a good 5mins for my avatar and others around me to finish loading. I have quite a powerful PC considering I work in IT, it is a requisite of the job, so I couldn't believe it was something on my end. I then proceeded to follow through the tutorial, well some of the tutorial, I found it incredibly boring and time consuming and after eventually managing to pick up some bizarre medieval armour, I just shut it down.

So my journey to the 'virtual office' ended prematurely, in fairness to Second Life I didn't really give it a chance, so I might zoom back in there again at some point to continue the journey. The flying aspect of it I found to be great fun, the depth of the world appears incredible, but regarding the general movement and speed, I was not really impressed.

So if you managed to get it downloaded and installed have a look around for Law Apprentice avatar, I doubt I will be in there much but you never know, you can visit the Second Life website here