Virtual Worlds
What are the virtual worlds that've come and stuck around (so far) or fallen off the map? I know I've been to loads but I can hardly remember most of them; most never got out of beta. I've got vague memories of some I can't name - add any you think of to the comments. What was the one that recently appeared and was bought/closed before it even opened? I'm not adding things like Hello Kitty World for obvious reasons.
Exist Now
Second Life - US
All the Opensim SL-like grids such as Inworldz - various
FriendsHangout
Vastpark (maybe)
Twinity - German
IMVU (a lot of the There crew built this) - US
ActiveWorlds - US
Avaya (browser plugin like JLI - but you can sit/use voice, very business-oriented an avs have a built-in laser pointer) - NZ
Utherverse/RedLightDistrict (Is it around?)
Club Cooee (?)
Meez (?)
Habbo Hotel
Exist Now But Just Barely
Blue Mars (iPhone app)
Not Sure (sometimes I can get there sometimes not)
Just Leap In
Gone ;_;
There
Metaplace/Areae (Raph Kosterman) Downsized to a FB game Island Life
HiPiHi (I think) Chinese rip-off of SL
Kaneva (I think) Urban youth vibe
Nuria (or w/e it was called) Korean with great av interactions supposedly
Croquet (I guess) I used to check in periodically and run around as a rabbit - deformable reflections
Multiverse
Vivaty
Lively
One this the devs probably didn't understand: every time a place opened we'd stampede over out of curiosity and they probably thought, "Ooh! Tons of interest!" But it was just "us" - all the same people. I saw everyone I knew everywhere.
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- 10:26 PM
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The worlds of Myst Online: Uru Live officially folded but the embers seem to still be alive and it looks as if the DRC's tech is moving to open source. I think there may be worlds out there waiting to be linked to that are, for lack of a better phrase, Myst's version of OpenSim...
http://mystonline.com/en/
http://mystonline.com/en/
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