The Metaverse Blogger

Engage! Expo being held March 10-11, 2009 is to be sponsored by a number of leaders in virtual world technology and metaverse related news. Sponsors listed so far are Active Worlds, Electric Sheep, Habbo, Super Rewards & Virtual Worlds Management. Since some of these sponsors are new to this year’s expo (at least in the [...]

The most recent buzz to hit the metaverse lines is the advancements in Papervision Augmented Reality - a technology that allows virtual objects and avatars to be placed almost directly into our own spaces. The keyword in that sentence being “almost”. Augment Reality is the principle of adding virtual objects or entire scenes to a [...]

The gap is closing. One of the leading 3D Chat/metaverse competitors, IMVU, has unveiled and launched a new service that will start to pull one of the most traditional products of the online world, into their virtual world: music. One of the biggest criticisms of the virtual worlds that have flooded the market, and of [...]

Leading Entertainment and Political Brands Launch Customized Vivaty Embedded Scenes
MENLO PARK, CALIF., October 29, 2008—Vivaty Inc., today launched Vivaty Everywhere, the company’s newest addition to its Web-based virtual world platform.
Already available publicly on both Facebook and AOL’s Instant Messenger chat service, Vivaty Everywhere gives anyone the ability to embed visually-rich, social, browser-based virtual experiences [...]

Last week at the Virtual Worlds London, Virtual Italian Parks unveiled its answer for developing secure, virtual environments: Moondus. Moondus, which has been a work in progress since March of 2007, was developed as a result of Virtual Italian Park’s work in Second Life, and the desire of its customers/developers to have something both more [...]