Virtual realities might soon be a place to raise real money.

By Melissa Busch

There’s also a virtual Guantanamo Bay project — the result of a partnership among Seton Hall University’s School of Law, the MacArthur Foundation and the Bay Area Video Coalition — where an avatar can put on an orange suit and feel “what it’s like inside prison.”

It’s also a great place to network, says Jessica Dally, help desk technician for the Seattle-based Community Voice Mail, which provides free, 24-hour nationwide voice mail to people in crisis.