Video Games as Collaboration Tools

Virtual Reality in video games are being used as collaboration tools in our society today. This has enabled all people to use video games as a way to work together and create things. Minecraft and Second Life are two examples of how people are using these video games for collaboration tools. Minecraft, a video games that uses building blocks to create other tools does not seem to be a collaboration tool. However it goes beyond just that. Second Life is a game that is similar, although it uses avatars rather than blocks. Second Life can be used with text chat to communicate and collaborate with others.

Minecraft's ability to be unique and use your imagination allows users to use it as a collaboration tool. You can work together with one another and travel to different worlds by sharing the Ip address of the location. This allows you to see others creativity and uniqueness of their world. You can use the text chat feature to communicate with one another.

Minecraft has become much more popular since it first was released. It is now being used as a learning tool for children. In some schools, it is being used educationally for kids to collaborate with one another to build places, buildings, and "towns" as a method of team building. Minecraft allows people to go beyond the tools that it provides, it enhances you to collaborate with others on how to create different tools to make your world better. No persons world is the same. They are all unique on how you create it. Some may resemble a real life place, where others are totally based upon ones imagination.

Second Life is a virtual world video game that has thousands of different places. Some of these places being real places in our world today. The server is world wide based. So you can meet anyone on this site as a collaboration tool. Second Life is known to have a "leader". Once someone is considered a leader in this game they collaborate with one another to go to another world to experience it for themselves, or simply chat with others. This video game has a text chat feature that allows people to collaborate, communicate and form relationships with. You can meet your your fellow workmates or classmates even to discuss a topic on the table at work. The possibilities are endless.

Second Life overall is a game that can be used individually or by meeting up with other people. It will always show you who else is in the world at that specific time, giving you the opportunity to collaborate with one another. This in return allows for you to collaborate with people from all over the world. Many locations in Second Life are environmentally based. That is to say that many of these places are either a beach location, winter related so perhaps an ice skating rink, or a jungle or forest. Each of these locations draws in different people interested in that environment.

Over the years, video games have expanded beyond just mario kart in your living room. They have taken it to a whole other level. Minecraft and Second Life are just two that are examples of video games being an example of collaboration tools. Virtually being able to connect with others through a game like these two enhance team building, collaboration and ideas in the world.

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