Is the future of virtual worlds inside the browser, or will the rich, client-based become the dominant model for virtual worlds? Not even a week after a lengthy discussion on my previous post on this topic, some major clues arrived to the scene as to how this ‘war over the metaverse’ is about to unfold [...]

Posted on: August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

What do you do when you don’t want to become ‘just another player’ in the battle over the metaverse? You start by adopting the most incredible graphics engine available, create a plausible setting to put your community building efforts into context, create amazing visuals and concept art to grab the attention (a tactic commonly employed [...]

Posted on: August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Some nice linkbait by Gary Hayes of the Personalizemedia blog I wanted to bookmark here. In his video “The ‘Social Virtual’ World’s A Stage“ Gary walks through some of the most popular social virtual worlds, adding visuals to virtual worlds such as HiPiHi, Kaneva, Twinity, ActiveWorlds, LagunaBeach vMTV. There.com, Habbo, Google Lively etc. Overall a [...]

Posted on: August 5, 2008 | No Comments »