what are sky boxes

[Cochise Digfoot]

what exactly are sky boxes .. and yes I am a nooob

[Charolotte Caxton]

Hi, basically a sky box is a box that you put in the sky. It is a place you can call home or just use for changing or a workshop. In Second Life, we can have stuff up to 4096 meters up in the air, that means if you don't want to be on the ground, you can be in the sky! 

This is fantastic for many reasons, among them being, relative privacy, less lag because there is less to rez and wonderful views, to name but a few.

They can be anywhere from a simple platform, to a giant castle.

[Peggy Paperdoll]

A skybox is a catch all for any dwelling, platform, work station, etc. that is put in the sky instead sitting on the ground.  You can take a regular house designed to be placed on the ground and put it in the sky and it's a "skybox".  You can also take a skybox and place in on the ground and it becomes a home, platform, work station or anything else.  The only difference is where it is placed.........ground or sky.

[Peewee Musytari]

Often when a building is sold spefically as a skybox, it will not have a door, because people usually teleport up into sky homes.

This does not mean that you couldn`t add a door and live in it on the ground, or even leave it as TP access only.

[Ivo Takacs]

For me its only a "term" used in secondlife, so think about the name SKY+BOX, yes simple as that, it shows you that you can be in the sky in your home with more privacy (the privacy is relative too but its another question right? )

so you can buy, build, on the sky as you can do on the ground.

If you buy a house and elevate the house to the sky , gues what? you´ll have a skybox

Yhats why i told you it´s only a term.....