Comments on: Virtual Worlds Circa 1998: How Much Has Changed? https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Wed, 28 May 2008 13:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lawrence https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/#comment-1931 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:02:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1929#comment-1931 Ah Andy, so much Nostalgia. I’ve been to a few conferences recently that have showed mcuh research into the area but the only difference I see between then and now is one of scale. This of course changes the social implications, but the technology and some of the interactions are just the same. Nice to see my avatar in the pic at the top. And no, I don’t use Second Life ;o)

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/#comment-1930 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:21:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1929#comment-1930 Second Life is very nice game.
http://www.cg-files.com
http://www.cg-links.com

]]> By: Andy https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/#comment-1929 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:25:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1929#comment-1929 Pvk,

I agree Blaxxun was also a good browser and one that we used here at UCL. The post wasent meant to convey that the birth of shared worlds was 1998, just that all the aspects were in place by that date.

We will run an article on Blaxxun in a future post 🙂

Andy

]]> By: PVK https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/#comment-1928 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:42:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1929#comment-1928 May I suggest to push the birth of shared 3D world back before 1998 ?
Dr. Bob Rockwell of Blaxxun Interactive died that year, and before his death he had time to develop a great VRML browser that would allow interaction within a virtual world. And that would be only one instance of product. SGI included in their OSes a chat client that would allow you to share great 3D models and video chat at the same time as early as in 1995
And one of the first very succesful one, was called “Deuxieme Monde” (see some picture at by Cryo and Canal+ … in 1997.
And last but not least, the networked building of virtual worlds is much much older … and date from the MUD and MOO, well before the web itself.
Of course, there was no visual 3D at the time, but you were able to build collaborative structures in which people would interract !

]]> By: Daniel https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/09/27/second-lifeweb-20-virtual-worlds-in-2/#comment-1927 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:56:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1929#comment-1927 I’m also noticing that 3D Worlds is revamping for a comeback. That was probably the first environment that introduced me to the metaverse — it’s kind of nice to see them regrouping.

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