The virtual world of Linden Lab's Second Life is indeed getting a lot of attention, not only from those people who wish to escape life's mundane happenings, but they are also catching the eye of big time companies. Endemol's Big Brother is already housed in the game, Reuters is in, and so are Sony, IBM, and GM. And now Dell has tossed its hat into the Second Life craze. Here are some screenshots of Dell's Second Life taken before the start of the company's press conference announcing its entry to the virtual world.

Dell Island visitors can even past the time away in one of the island's drafting tables to configure their XPS 1710 notebooks, which your avatars can buy and use in the virtual world; that made us wonder if Dell's battery exploding saga will be given room in the virtual world. In the future, Dell wants to let residents purchase real PCs that they could use in real life.

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Endemol's popular reality show">Big Brother">Endemol's popular reality show">Big Brother is watching, and this time around, his eye's turned toward Linden Labs' virtual world, Second Life. Being the latest addition to the list of real-life establishments who are expanding onto digital territory, Endemol's Big Brother series will be recreated in Second Life.

Same rules apply: contestants will be placed in a communal house and will be monitored 24/7 via cameras scattered around the house. Nobody would be allowed to leave the premises, and everyone must participate in any challenge or task which Big Brother assigns. A participant is "evicted" from the house regularly and the last man or woman standing is declared the winner.

If in real life, the prize includes loads of cash and cars or houses, the grand prize for the winner of the Second Life edition of this series would be an island under his or her name - virtual property worth around US$ 1,675.

The series begins on December 1, so if you're up to the challenge, then start signing up.