What Specialized Virtual Worlds Should the Virtual Worlds Museum Track?

I'm still working with Julian Reyes and his Virtual Worlds Museum to compile the most comprehensive list of virtual worlds online. Now that we've compiled this list of sunsetted virtual worlds, we're updating our next category: Specialized. 

In our definition, Specialized virtual worlds fall roughly into this category:  

Virtual worlds primarily created for Education/Training, Meetings, or other Enterprise use cases -- or social worlds with limited access due to narrow usage or limited platform / geographic availability, or other barriers to entry.

So for example, Breakroom falls in the Enterprise category, while ZEPETO falls in the latter category, as it's a social virtual world that's mobile only, and mainly used/marketed to a South Korean user base.

See the (mostly) whole list below. We're also adding open source virtual worlds to this category, but that'll be in the next edition.  

Acadicus	Education/Training	https://acadicus.com/	2018
Active Worlds	Social	https://www.activeworlds.com/	1998
Arthur VR	Meeting	https://www.arthur.digital/	2017
Breakroom	Enterprise	https://www.breakroom.net/	2018
Chaarmi	Enterprise	https://www.chaarmi.com	2022
Club Cooee	Social	https://en.clubcooee.com/	2007
Cluster	Social	https://cluster.mu/en
Core	Social	https://www.coregames.com/
Dreamwave	Enterprise	https://dreamwave.live/	2022
Ed Verse	Education	https://www.edverse.com/	2022
Foretell Reality	Enterprise	https://foretellreality.com/	2020
Gather Town	Social	https://www.gather.town/	2020
Gemba	Education / Enterprise	https://thegemba.com/	2022
Glue	Meeting	https://glue.work/	2018
Hubs Foundation
IMVU	Social	https://secure.imvu.com/welcome/ftux/	2004
Kitely	Social	https://www.kitely.com/	2008
Matrix
Mibo	Enterprise	https://getmibo.com/	2020
Name	Category	Link	Year
Nanome	Education	https://nanome.ai/	2016
Occupy White Walls	Education	https://www.oww.io/	2022
Omniverse	Enterprise	https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse/
OpenSimulator
Overte
Ravespace	Social	https://ravespace.io/	2021
Roomful	Meeting	https://roomful.net/	2017
RP1	Social	https://www.rp1.com/
Sansar	Social	https://www.sansar.com/	2020
Spot	Meeting	https://www.spotvirtual.com/virtual-offices	2021
There (virtual world)	Social	https://www.there.com/	1997
Utopia VR	Social	https://www.utopiavr.world/	2021
Uttopion	Social	https://www.uttopion.com/	2022
V-Sekai
VirBela	Enterprise	https://www.virbela.com/	2012
Virtway	Meeting	https://virtway.com/	2008
VZones	Social	www.vzones.com	1995
w3rlds	Social	https://www.w3rlds.com/	2023
Wolf Territories Grid
Wooorld	Meeting	https://www.wooorld.io/	2021
Worlds	Social	www.worlds.com	1998
XRSPACE (Manova, Go XR)	Social	https://www.xrspace.io/	2019
Zepeto	Social	https://web.zepeto.me/en	2018

Pictured: RP1, which I demoed/wrote about last year.

Comments

[Evo]

I'm testing https://atopia.space/ at the moment which will likely fall closer to the FrameVR or Engage side of the museum vs. the specialized list (it's for arts/culture like New Art City, which maybe should be on this list). https://newart.city/