{"id":246108,"date":"2023-08-27T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=304354"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:23:14","slug":"that-time-politicians-started-to-give-speeches-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/that-time-politicians-started-to-give-speeches-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"From Real World to Virtual Reality: Politicians’ Unforgettable Second Life Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long before Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> warmed our heads with the Metaverse – something that, as we now know, is destined not to happen at all in the near future – there was a game that served as a life simulator: Second Life promised at its 2003 launch that we would all end up living an alternative life inside its servers. Today, between 28,000 and 52,000 people, at its lowest and highest point, are still hooked twenty years late<\/strong>r. But back in the day, everything promised to be very different.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We are used to actors, characters and even celebrities appearing in ‘Fortnite<\/a><\/strong>‘ or ‘Call of Duty’ promoting themselves, but Second Life offered another possibility to celebrities: to be themselves<\/strong>. They could even set up entire political campaigns from their living room and influence the real world. On paper it was spectacular, and the governor of Virginia (in the United States), Mark Warner, was the first to decide to launch his group Forward Together and be interviewed within this proto-metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He literally got the whole world talking about him, and finally became a senator of the Democratic Party after failing in his attempt to run for the presidency of the <\/strong>United States<\/strong>.<\/a> Not bad. Seeing the success that Warner had overseas, in Spain we also had a politician who thought that this was an opportunity to win the votes of young people: Gaspar Llamazares did not know what he was getting into.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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