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ourWorld combined an online virtual world with a range of casual gaming activities. [1] Each player had an avatar and a condo which could be decorated. An in-game currency, "Flow", was earned by talking, dancing, eating and drinking, and playing games. Flow could be exchanged for experience points and coins. ourWorld operated on
Avatars socialising in the virtual world Second Life. The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, [1] usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The virtual world used Adobe Flash and ran inside a web browser, as Google Chrome was most recommended when playing this game. It integrated with YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud, and a number of other Web 2.0 services. The game had thousands of players, peaking in 2012 with a total of 3.8 million visits globally from July to August. [2]
Habbo, also called Habbo Hotel, is a virtual world [1] and massively multiplayer online game. It is owned and operated by Sulake. Founded in 2000, Habbo has expanded to nine online communities (or "hotels"), with users from more than 150 countries. As of October 2020, 316 million avatars have been registered in the game. [2]
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 began to receive significant media attention in 2005 and 2006, including a cover story in BusinessWeek magazine featuring the virtual world and Second Life avatar Anshe Chung. [23] By that time, Anshe Chung had become Second Life ' s poster child and symbol for the economic opportunities that the virtual world offers to its ...
Active Worlds is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe , and explore 3D virtual worlds and environments that others have built.
This category is for virtual communities in social virtual worlds where users can walk around in 2D or 3D. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.