Virtual Worlds Conference: MMVW vs. MMOG
Posted in Lifestyle Evolution, Science, Second Life, There.com, Video, Video Games by wayne.porter on March 11th, 2007 Timely considering that Domino’s Pizza plans on enabling pizza delivery from the Second Life metaverse we have the upcoming Virtual Worlds Conference 2007. Some people continue to scoff at the concept of metaverses, but they are here to stay. I think the book, Play Money, demonstrates this- check it out and read up on the concept of “flow”.
What brands are attending? MTV, Disney, AOL, Pontiac, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, GSD&M, IBM to name a few…and what metaverse platforms are they exploring? Second Life, There.com, Multiverse, Forterra Systems, Whyville, ProtonMedia, Entropia Universe, Habbo, Areae and more…stand alone or immersive world?
Perhaps one of the most exciting developments I caught up on at A&E Interactive was this Martian Chronicles like news…
Avatar Reality plans to develop a new virtual world based on a terraformed Mars. A bunch of these folks are from the company that brought you Tetris. They plan on using the Crytek CryEngine2 (Crysis) to develop its new MMVW…not MMOG. Avatars will get to explore Mars, which is probably the closest I will get in my lifetime, but better than nothing! Crytek reps (Far Cry, Crysis) acknowledged this was the first company to license their middleware for a MMVW.
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