Re: UKNM: Virtual Communities, Avatars etc. . .

[Sam Carrington]

get the blaxxun VRML communities plug in and visit:


http://www.cybertown.com/


The only point of yours this site doesnt attempt to address is number 3!



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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

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> Thoughts?

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