The Open Grid Public Beta program is a Linden Lab sponsored opportunity for developers to make their virtual worlds interoperate with Second Life. Virtual world interoperability is enabled through ...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Interactive media are highly complex and at high risk for loss as technologies rapidly become obsolete. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project will explor...
Rainbows End is a 2006 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. It was awarded the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book is set in San Diego in 2025, in a variation of the fictional world Vinge ex...
Teen Second Life is a version of Second Life reserved for teenagers, running on the so-called "Teen Grid." It was officially opened to the public on February 14th, 2005 for people aged 13-17 to pla...
Adobe Atmosphere is a development platform for Web based virtual worlds. Version 1.0 was released in February 2004 and was discontinued in December 2004 much to the disappointment of its user based...
Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world launched on June 23, 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as Linden Lab), which came to international att...
Avatars2002: A Marry Cyber Party cyberconference is held in avatar cyberspace and at several IRL locations across the planet.
AVATARA, documentary about Traveler and its inahbitants (2003) by 536 Productions of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Note that in the introductory audio dialogue, the speaker mentions the date of 1993, more...
Vlearn3D 2002: Building Blocks for Virtual Worlds, 5th annual conference on virtual worlds and learning.
Video of Bruce Damer presenting avatars at Pop!Tech Conference, Sept 2002.
Vlearn3D 2001: Knowledge Space & Information Landscapes, the 4th Annual Conference on virtual worlds and learning.
Avatars2001: A Cyber Space Odyssey cyberconference is held in multiple virtual worlds across Cyberspace and at several physical locations globally.
Bonnie deVarco: Virtual Vincent - Nicholas deVarco in Van Gough World - Active Worlds (2001)
Andrew Linden and James Linden managed to get a build running of Second Life circa August 2001. They called it “LindenWorld”. Their first human-like avatar was called “primitar”. Previous versions...
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