Resources and connections to others in the avatar virtual world universe.
This is a list of Avatar Virtual World resources and contacts. Please send me any links you would like
to see here: vreed@actlab.utexas.edu
Avatar98 Conference, to be held in cyberspace!
Avatar Virtual World platforms / worlds
- ActiveWorlds, platform for over 300 virtual worlds, optimized for
user building.
- blaxxun, Germany, VRML-based virtual world software; connect to worlds
using that platform, e.g. ColonyCity.
- Electric Communities, merged with Onlive!, creator of our Traveler
software, offer the Palace 2D virtual world software available for both
PC and Mac; put up interesting beta Habitat, now closed.
- Interspace, from NTT, avatar worlds with video heads and real-time
audio
- OZ Virtual, virtual worlds with motion-capture enabled avatars.
- Sony Community Place, VRML-based virtual world software.
- Utopia, the ACTLab's traveler world.
- vwww (virtual world wide web), a collection of VRML-based worlds created with
Superscape (Germany) Viscape virtual world software.
Fellow travelers
- Rebecca Allen, UCLA research on avatars with AI behavior.
- meetfactory, Finland, a group producing blaxxun worlds inhabited
by bots with attitudes.
- John Suler, psychologist at Rider U. with lots of
experience in avatar worlds. Some really fascinating papers.
- T.L. Taylor, sociologist at Brandeis
U. with an emphasis on embodiment aspects of virtual experience.
- Technosphere, a virtual world populated by artificial life forms.
- Hannes Vilhjalmsson, MIT research on avatars with AI
behavior.
ActiveWorlds building resources
VRML resources
Other resources