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2. Virtual world - Wikipedia

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   Users exploring the world with their avatars in Second Life. A virtual world (also called a virtual space or spaces) is a computer-simulated environment [1] which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar [2] and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.

3. Second Life - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Worlds.com - Wikipedia

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   In 2011, Tamiko Thiel, the creative director and producer at Worlds Inc. from 1994 to 1996, wrote an article entitled "Cyber-Animism and Augmented Dreams" describing the history of virtual worlds, in which she wrote: "In the virtual worlds and avatar communities in the mid 1990s, we thought we all would start parallel, virtual, online ...

5. List of virtual communities - Wikipedia

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   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, Text) Group blogs; TakingITGlobal (Youth - social networking for social good)

6. Active Worlds - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Virtual community - Wikipedia

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   A virtual community chat room may give real-time conversations, but people can only talk to one another. In a virtual world, characters can do activities together, just like friends could do in reality. Communities in virtual worlds are most similar to real-life communities because the characters are physically in the same place, even if the ...