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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.
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 ...
Communication training in virtual worlds started as synchronous role-play, similar to role-play sessions being conducted in a real life. Later emergence of robotic avatars technique provided an opportunity for conducting communication training asynchronous training. In this case trainee communicates with a robotic avatar, operated according to ...
Anshe Chung is the main avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online world Second Life.Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" [8] by a CNN journalist, she has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies, and has been featured in a number of prominent magazines such as Business Week, [9] Fortune [10 ...
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)
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There is a 3D online virtual world created by Will Harvey and Jeffrey Ventrella. There Inc. was founded in the spring of 1998. Closed beta began in July 2001, with various stages of beta following, and ending with an October 2003 launch date.
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. The game itself is free-to-play, however, players can purchase in-game ...