Posts Tagged ‘Virtual Worlds’

United States Moves Closer to Virtual World Taxation

Sunday, January 18, 2009 15:05 1 Comment

Remember that virtual McMansion your mom told you not to buy, because it might turn out that you didn’t have all the money needed to pay for it? Well… we hate to break it to you, but your mom might have been right. On January 7, 2009 the United States Internal Revenue Service moved closer [...]

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Just Leap In Enters Public Beta

Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:28 No Comments

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 [...]

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Metaverse Citizens - The Transient Class

Saturday, November 1, 2008 0:32 No Comments

In the real world our lives take on various forms, causing each of us to tackle different issues and walk certain paths. We grow up, we find jobs, we settle down, and we form communities (amongst other things). The virtual world is not unlike the real world in this way, beyond being a faster paced [...]

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Forterra Systems Integrates With Surveillance Systems

Monday, October 27, 2008 11:10 No Comments

ORLANDO, Fla. - (Business Wire) Forterra Systems, the market and technology leader in purpose-built virtual worlds, announced a program with CENTRA Technology to develop a rich user-sensor interface using an integration of Forterra’s On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE™) and CENTRA’s Satellite Toolkit (STK).

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