Virtual Worlds

The Spire in Second Life Dublin

Each week more than 35 million people around the globe abandon reality for virtual realms. They leave behind the real world and it's the daily grind, tax, insurance and debt and enter Virtual worlds with adventure and risk-free fun and frolics.
As Kyle from South Park's dad says "in the outside world, I am a simple geologist. But here I am Falcor, Defender of the Alliance".

So are virtual worlds just harmless magical kingdoms, a modern Eden and place we can finally be free? Author of Second Lives - A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, Tim Guest joins Cormac in studio along with Gary Leyden of Dublin's Digital Hub to find out if there is any darkness in this paradise?

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