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It’s been a long time since the first virtual worlds began opening their doors to the well receptive “masses” back around the distant year of 1996, with platforms like Worlds.com, Active Worlds, and Blaxxun making a few small waves. Over the years, Activeworlds and it’s predecessors (more recently SecondLife, IMVU, There, etc) have become [...]

Warner Bros 3D Cinema experience from ExitReality on Vimeo.
Back in May, ExitReality announced that Warner Bros. Entertainment would be taking advantage of their software that allows “any” website to become a 3D virtual environment. The gig is simple: give visitors to the newly revamped WB.com the chance to login to a 3D cinema and virtual [...]

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 spectrum of virtual worlds and 3d environments continues to grow larger by the day, as programs like Just Leap In move from closed alpha/beta testing, to public releases that allow the world at large to take a glimpse at what’s being worked on. Just the other day Just Leap In announced their open beta [...]

On November 19th at 5:55pm Google announced on its official blog the discontinuation of their anticipated 3D virtual environment application, Google Lively. The announcement comes just under five months after the virtual chat environment released for beta testing in early July, after many hailed its release as a triumphal return of the online chat.
In a [...]