virtual worlds

dotted for Ayenn's research on virtual worlds. The fine line between purely physical selves and cybeborg selves...

Koinup is the first social network to share virtual lives, screenshots, machinima and virtual stories. It allows users to upload, share and review content they create within games, mmorpg, virtual worlds and metaverse. Here are some examples of these contents:
.Video and movies made within virtual environments (such as machinima, demos and tutorials)

ActiveWorlds.com
3D Virtual Reality Chat at its finest. Create your own 3D world, chat with others in Virtual Reality environments created by others and much more

There is your everyday hangout where you can have fun with your friends and meet new ones -- all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore.

Quoted: A Collection of Modelling and
Simulation Resources on the
Internet

http://metaplace.com/
Metaplace is a next-generation virtual worlds platform designed to work the way the Web does. Instead of giant custom clients and huge downloads, Metaplace lets you play the same game on any platform that reads our open client standard. We supply a suite of tools so you can make worlds, and we host servers for you so that anyone can connect and play. And the client could be anywhere on the Web.

Quoted: The purpose of the TerraGear project[9] is to develop open-source tools and rendering libraries and collect free data for building 3D representations (or maps) of ...

wow. saw a reference to this in harvard business review

Quoted: Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively ...