Metacrusher - bridge between virtual worlds
This is a project of high interest and I read a very interesting interview at Virtual World News with one of the Metacrusher initiators.
“At the beginning, it’s the ability to port your information back and forth. How long does it take me to create an avatar in Second Life, but then I have to go through it in There.com? And then down the line, the idea is for your avatar to stroll through different worlds on the Metacrasher network, but it’s up to others if they want to be involved.
We’re reproducing sims from Second Life. So if you want, people can see it right from your website, and they can either buy what you’re selling right there, or hit the SLURL, or investigate other worlds.
Let’s say you have a mirror of your SL acre. Right next to it, you may be linked to someone’s WoW acre. And you have the chance to go between them and do commerce, either through Paypal or if it gets to the point of corresponding with everyone else’s, we might do that. Right now, we’re going to try and do it with real-life money, something that’s based on dollars. We’re working on that right now with the networking people. ”
This will be very very interesting! How does knowledge will be transfered from one world to another?
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October 13th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Are there any companies out there similar to metacrasher? If so, can you give me some names and websites. Thanks.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
As I know, there are different companies working at this topic. In the Metaverse-Project, there is the Electric Sheep Company involved, and some big players like IBM. Other “small” scale projects on their way to build meta-worlds is Ogoglio (company: Transmutable) and Metaplace (Areae).
As far as I could see SL also opens constantly their platform to allow avatar transfer from one world to another. But there are many things still “unsolved” - standards, business models, …
May 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am
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