A City for Exploring in ActiveWorlds
SW City’s Cirrus Street
This blog post alerted me to what sounds like a huge and thriving city in ActiveWorld that I hadn’t heard of before. SW City apparently covers 130 square km. of virtual space, and is filled with impressive builds, judging from this YouTube video. Billed as “the largest city in ActiveWorlds,” the place was founded in 1999, has over 200 “citizens,” a government, a census bureau and an active media sector. The video makes a great advertisement for AW, and seems to be inviting new users to “come build with us” in SW City. We don’t hear a lot about AW or the other big virtual world, There.com (which actually claims around twice as many members as Second Life), but I have a feeling we’ll be hearing more about both later this year.
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ActiveWorlds Bus Now Leaving For SW City…
There’s apparently a huge city in ActiveWorlds called SW City that covers 130 square virtual kilometers. I’m looking forward to checking this out, but I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’s been there….
[…] Chris from SWCity, a community in ActiveWorlds that I’ve been meaning to visit ever since I blogged it back in April (sorry, guys!), sends news that AW recently released a preliminary build of the new Version 4.1 of its software. I don’t spend a lot of time in ActiveWorlds so I can’t say how much better this is than the last version, but a couple of things jump out at me from the release notes that are notable or at least cool-sounding — including a kind of identity portability. And some of it seems to point, in a platform-agnostic way, to what would seem to be the future of 3D spaces on the Internet. But first the new AW stuff: […]