Thanks for this thread. I have checked in on Second Life several times in the past, but I can never get their software to work with my graphics card (and I have tried it with three different, late-model graphics cards).

"It may not be that far off when high-speed connections and ever more powerful computers will allow a virtual community to exist based on Poser."

I hope not. the virtual worlds seem addictive to a kind of person who would never get involved with Poser or the other real 3D software which we work with. The market for textures and models would grow by orders of magntitude overnight, you would think.