Posts Tagged ‘ ActiveWorlds ’

3B Relaunching: More Web Integration, Features

I had the chance to spend some time at Virtual Worlds 2007 with Nicky Morris from 3B, an interesting virtual world service I’ve blogged about before, and Nicky described to me some of the features of the 3B relaunch that’s planned for somewhere around May. According to Nicky, 3B is moving toward deeper Web integration [ READ MORE ]

Wells Fargo Expands ActiveWorlds Site

Wells Fargo, which launched a 3D online financial education site for young people on the ActiveWorlds platform about a year ago (after a failed attempt to do so in the virtual world of Second Life), is now expanding their offerings there, according to a press release. This could be a sign that Wells Fargo is [ READ MORE ]

ActiveWorlds Expo, November 3-5

If you’re interested in finding out what’s happening in the 3D online spaces that make up ActiveWorlds, drop into the ActiveWorlds Expo this coming weekend, November 3-5 [via Virtual Worldlets]. Nearly three dozen exhibitors will occupy a virtual trade show floor, showing off models, textures, products, bots, builds, cities, towns, worlds and more. It’s an [ READ MORE ]

Futuring and Sustainability For Virtual Worlds?

As Alex Steffen at the World Changing blog points out, “we can’t build what we can’t imagine.” The city of Berlin, hoping to help build a better future for itself, is now in the process of catalyzing some imagination in a series of events looking at “the future of urban spaces in [the] world.” As [ READ MORE ]

Report on Branding in Virtual Worlds

A new report from Trendwatching.com on branding in virtual worlds has been getting some notice on various blogs lately. While the article doesn’t break terribly new ground, it rounds things up fairly nicely, and probably reaches an audience that hadn’t heard much about this stuff before[ READ MORE ]

Personal Avatars: The Future of the 3D Internet?

This was going to be a brief post about some new features of the ActiveWorlds software that was just released, but it turned into a longer contemplation of how the 3D Internet will work once many, many more of us have a presence in such online spaces. Chris from SWCity, a community in ActiveWorlds that [ READ MORE ]

Teaching Science in Virtual Worlds

Sixth-graders in Wisconsin are apparently using an avatarized virtual environment built at Harvard to learn about science. MUVEES, which is saddled with one of the most unwieldy names I’ve come across in virtual worlds (Multi-User Virtual Environment Experimental Simulator), lets users don avatars to navigate a shared 3D online space filled with “virtual architectures,” “digital [ READ MORE ]

Millions of Launches

The New Globe Theatre in Second Life It’s just one launch, actually, but it’s happening later today: It’s called Millions of Us, a new 3D net services company, and it’s headed up by Reuben Steiger, former evangelist at Linden Lab (makers of Second Life). Millions of Us will help businesses “understand and harness the power [ READ MORE ]

Major VW Companies Forge Strategic Alliance

Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture blogs a strategic alliance between two of the most prominent actors in Second Life‘s business community, Anshe Chung Studios and branding concern Rivers Run Red. The tie-up was announced about a week ago via an Anshe Chung press release, which says the agreement “will see both parties developing large scale [ READ MORE ]

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 [ READ MORE ]