Virtual World Resources

Virtual World Resources:

• Virtual World Review
• Wikipedia Defines “Virtual World”

Playing Catch Up…

Here’s a few tidbits to help get this category going…
LivePlace To Launch Photo-Realistic Virtual World Rendered In The Cloud – Via Tech Crunch
LivePlace.com has posted a video displaying a very impressive render of a 3D virtual world called City Space. At this point very little is known about LivePlace, other than that the WHOIS lists the domain’s owner as Brad Greenspan, one of the co-founders of MySpace. Note: It appears that in the 20 minutes since I spoke to Greenspan about this post, someone was told to take LivePlace down (apparently nobody was supposed to find it).

Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively – Via Tech Crunch
Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.

Vivaty Brings The 3D Web to Your Browser, Starting With AIM and Facebook – Via Tech Crunch
Move over Second Life. The 3D Web is starting to make inroads into the plain old browser. By “plain,” I mean only Internet Explorer on Windows machines—which for now is what you need to experience Vivaty Scenes. But at least it’s a start. (Firefox support on PCs is coming in a few weeks, but Mac support is being pushed off further).