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This is a fun and useful timeline for the history of virtual worlds from the team at the Virtual World Museum (a proud sponsoring partner!) which starts all the way back to Plato's Allegory of the Cave from 375 BCE to the present day. Very much a project in progress, developers of current virtual world platforms can request to add their world to this timeline by filling out this form.
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Classic New World Notes stories:
Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life (2011)
What Rebecca Learned By Being A Second Life Man (2010)
All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)
Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)
Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)
The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)
Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)
The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)
Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)
Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)
Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)
War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)
Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)
Ahem.
'Paige Dansinger is the founder of Better World Museum, Horizon Art Museum, Women in Horizon, and is a Facebook Horizon VR Game Developer in the Horizon MiniGame Accelerator Program and the Oculus Launch Pad Program.
Paige is recognized by Facebook as one of the Top 117 Global Community Leaders by the Facebook Community Leadership Fellowship Program and was a Horizon Worlds Pre-Alpha Community Creator.'
So thats a no then. Not a dig at the person in question - the whole 'project' in general but enough of a reason to run away. I mean, does not even say 'Meta'.
Posted by: sirhc desantis | Monday, November 13, 2023 at 01:27 PM