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2. Virtual world - Wikipedia

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   A virtual world (also called a virtual space) 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. [ 3][ 4] These avatars can be textual, [ 5] graphical ...

3. Second Life - Wikipedia

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   Second Life is an online multimedia computing platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Francisco –based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003, it saw rapid growth for some years and ...

4. Metaverse - Wikipedia

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   Avatars socialising in the virtual world Second Life The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. The term metaverse originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe". In Snow Crash, the metaverse is envisioned as a ...

5. List of free massively multiplayer online games - Wikipedia

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   Virtual world: Free to play with in-game currency and privileges that can be purchased with a subscription Freeform with in-game build system. Players can sell their own virtual creations. 3D Active Shattered Galaxy: KRU Interactive: 2001: Windows: MMORTS: Free play or paid accounts available, with gameplay benefits to paying accounts.

6. Active Worlds - Wikipedia

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   Active Worlds is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe , and explore 3D virtual worlds and environments that others have built.

7. Virtual community - Wikipedia

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   A virtual community chat room may give real-time conversations, but people can only talk to one another. In a virtual world, characters can do activities together, just like friends could do in reality. Communities in virtual worlds are most similar to real-life communities because the characters are physically in the same place, even if the ...