At SLOz we've covered Project Outback a couple of times (here and here), mainly because its CEO, Rand Leeb-du Toit, is Australia-based and was rightly touting an upcoming new virtual world competitor. On Rand's blog yesterday, I noticed the following few words: "since the demise of the virtual world I was working on", so I'm assuming Project Outback is no more. We contacted … [Read more...] about Project Outback bites the dust
Alternatives
Metaplace
It's been fairly widely reported over the past week that there's a new kid on the virtual world block. Metaplace has some significant backing and looks promising. Some key snippets from Metaplace's company, Areae: "We think there are all kinds of things on the Internet that would be improved if anyone could have a virtual place of their own" "committed to an open markup … [Read more...] about Metaplace
VastPark gives glimpse of ‘Worlds Collide’
VastPark, the virtual world creation platform we've covered previously, today released some screen shots from their upcoming platform upgrade "Worlds Collide': Looks promising wouldn't you say? … [Read more...] about VastPark gives glimpse of ‘Worlds Collide’
Kaneva – tried it?
Whilst SL is arguably the premier virtual world community, there are more and more alternatives appearing. Kaneva is a contender that has been on the scene for a little while. It has boosted its "citizen" numbers to more than 550 000 people and like SL, it appears to be modeled upon the interaction between citizens in a 3 dimensional world where the kind of building and social … [Read more...] about Kaneva – tried it?
VastPark takes next step
Back in April this year we mentioned VastPark, an Australian-flavoured virtual world platform. In the months since they've been working away at their next phase, something code-named 'When World's Collide'. The VastPark site is currently accepting sign-ups for their beta-testing of 'Worlds Collide'. It's great to see such steady evolution in virtual world evolution occurring … [Read more...] about VastPark takes next step