UKNM: Virtual Communities, Avatars etc. . .

[Ian Tester]

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Does anyone have any thoughts on virtual communities, where users can enter

the site, select an avatar and interact with others in a virtual world?

There was a big feature on them in Revolution last year, but the concept

doesn't really seem to have taken off/been incorporated in other sites,

despite the much-vaunted "stickiness" of the concept. . .


All the ones I've seen lately seem to crash my browser

(www.virtualzones.co.uk, www.elcitio.com). . . perhaps due to the

complication of the technology ? (don't even think about it. . .  ;-0)


Anyway - are there any good ones? (I quite like the dobedo version, and

quake). My feeling is that they're not as effective as they could be because

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1. you can't really customise the avatars

2. you can't really customise the environments

3. most people this side of the pond can't afford to be online long enough

to have fun (tho that's changing!)

4. there isn't a great enough choice of environments available


Thoughts?


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