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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 [...]

On March 27, 2007 Phil Harrison a representative director from Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., officially announced the development of Sony’s Playstation Home, at the Game Developers Conference. Although the game has been speculated since 2006 with the Playstation 2 as a project called “The Getaway Online”, official announcement of its release on Sony’s Playstation 3 [...]

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.
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The Metaverse is constantly expanding at an alarming rate - new 3D virtual environments are popping up across the colorful scene like weeds, invading every nook and cranny of the internet that at one time thought of the 3D chat as a novelty. Programs like Second Life are becoming normal conversation in households and on [...]

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 [...]