Posts Relating To: virtual world

Virtual World Design Guidelines Courtesy of Microsoft

Between 1995 and 2001, Microsoft developed and oper­ated it’s own social vir­tual world. Named V-Chat, the ser­vice allowed users to cre­ate their own text-based, 2D, or 3D envir­on­ments in which they could chat and inter­act with other users. In it’s six years of act­ive ser­vice, V-Chat saw two major iter­a­tions, an act­ive end-user com­munity num­ber­ing …

January 9, 2010 – 7:20 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

App Review: Touch Life by Pocket Metaverse

From time to time, I’ve had a genu­ine reason for need­ing access to Second Life on the move. Nor­mally this would involve car­ry­ing my laptop around, or just going without. Sparkle, a Second Life chat cli­ent for the iPhone, offered a bit of the Second Life exper­i­ence, but it was very bare bones — offer­ing …

December 10, 2009 – 3:49 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (10)