Virtual Worlds Today: A reality distortion field in the making?
Need I say more… See the blogs and websites below. Draw your own conclusions, talk to us!
In one year we have seen the hype-ometer of virtual worlds grow from IBM’s early infatuation with Linden Labs and their Second Life virtual world environment go from this: http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2006/11/09/ibm-accelerates-push-into-3d-virtual-worlds/ to this:
http://vwinterop.wikidot.com/oct-9th-agenda
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/virtualworlds.index.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/
http://www.interopworld.com/members/
http://metaverseroadmap.org/
http://www.multiverse.net/
http://croqueteer.blogspot.com/
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/giogaming/073007/index.shtml
https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/
http://metaversed.com/
http://metanomics.metaversed.com/
http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/
http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/
And let’s not forget some of the more vocal real life characters now in the mix:
http://vwinterop.wikidot.com/ (Peter Haggar’s Wiki)
http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/index.shtml (Raph Koster)
http://www.3pointd.com/index.php?tag=metaverse (Mark Wallace)
http://xianrenaud.typepad.com/ (Christian Renaud)
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1678 (Bob Sutor)
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/10/induality-bring.html (Peter Finn)
http://3donthewebcheap.blogspot.com/ (Len Bullard)
Need I say more… See the blogs and websites; new ones crop up every day. Draw your own conclusions, talk to us!