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The development of Horizon Worlds (formerly called Facebook Horizon) followed earlier social VR apps by Facebook (Oculus Rooms, Oculus Venues, and Facebook Spaces) and focused more on user-generated content than these earlier apps. Facebook announced Facebook Horizon as a new social virtual world at the Oculus Connect 6 conference in September ...
Warm Showers (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange for bicycle travelers) Meetup (an online service designed to facilitate real-world meetings of people involved in various virtual communities) Meetro (local focused communities) StumbleUpon (web surfing) Woozworld (virtual gaming community for youth) YTMND (Picture, Sound ...
Metaplace was a software platform intended to democratize the development of virtual worlds, [1] which was later used to make Facebook games. The company was established by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster. According to the official website, the platform was "client-agnostic", which means that virtual worlds developed ...
Twinity is the first 3D online virtual world to incorporate true-to-scale replicas of large cities from all over the world. However, the company has recently begun to shift the focus away from a mirror world towards a more fantasy-oriented environment with locations like the Isle of Palmadora. [3]
Second Life is a multiplayer virtual world that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online environment. Developed for personal computers and owned by the San Francisco -based firm Linden Lab , it launched on June 23, 2003 and saw rapid growth for some ...
VRChat is an online virtual world platform created by Graham Gaylor and Jesse Joudrey [2] and operated by VRChat, Inc. The platform allows users to interact with others with user-created 3D avatars and worlds.
Open Cobalt is designed to enable the deployment of secure virtual world spaces that support education, research, and the activities of virtual organizations.By leveraging OpenGL-based 3D graphics, Open Cobalt supports highly scalable collaborative data visualization, virtual learning and problem solving environments, 3D wikis, online gaming environments termed Massively multiplayer online ...
YoWorld (formerly YoVille) is a browser-based virtual world game which was released on May 8, 2008. It is developed by Big Viking Games. [1] The game operates on the freemium model, and is supported through microtransactions, as well as a voluntary in-game ad program.