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OpenSim looks and feels very much like Linden Lab's Second Life. But top OpenSim developers see a future where their software is a generic platform for 3D software, hopefully interoperable with the Second Life Grid but not necessarily resembling it.

Be careful, that avatar on your sim could be a real-life private investigator sent in to report on what you're up to in your Second Life.

No one's really sure yet how avatar identities will be managed in a chaotic world filled with thousands of interoperable OpenSim grids. But Microsoft believes it has a solution: its own Windows Live ID.

If Second Life isn't effective for real world marketing, no one told high-end guitar manufacturer Gibson.

A future where the Second Life Grid is a minor player in a sprawling Metaverse of thousands of competing virtual worlds sounds like a bad outcome for Linden Lab. But company executives say that's exactly the plan.