Brave New Worlds Get the book! The Worlds There are many new virtual worlds which have avatars but are just now developing their communities. We expect these worlds will grow in the future and encourage you to give them a try. Check out: Featured Newly Released Worlds Try Second Life, exciting second generation Avatar Cyberspace! IMVU - cool new avatars in an Instant Message world! New DigitalSpace Traveler released! There now offers free basic membership! TalkWorld from Etchinghill Studios and their new product Groupworld (customizable 3D voice chat) Note: many of the links below may no longer be working, they could possibly be found by entering them into the WayBackMachine at The Internet Archive. Microsoft's V-Chat is alive and well at some of the following sites "BayKnight's Server" at: vchat://vchat.techin.net/Chat-KnightsHall (click here if you have V-Chat already installed) BayKnight's Server (launches V-Chat) Brand new world from France! Cryopolis from Cryonetworks Microsoft VWorlds (see below) Microsoft's Virtual Wolrds Platform for research into the medium of virtual worlds, also see: Microsoft's Virtual Worlds Group Home Page Other New Worlds Try the brand new Roomancer World Visit Donnyworld, a java based animation chat world. New but Seasoned Worlds Deuxième Monde, virtual Paris for the Francophone world (now employing Blaxxun technologies) DIVE from the Swedish Inst. of Computer Science (research environment with binaries available) MUD and MOO text-based worlds Open or Community Source Worlds Oworld.org the open worlds community (a SIG of the Contact Consortium) and its Software Map listing open world projects Immersive System's MEME worlds now released in open source under the MetaTopia Project Try OpenVerse, a Cross Platform Tcl based open source world! Chaco's Pueblo graphical addition to a MOO, now released in source code! Non-Avatar (uninhabited) Worlds Atomic 3D's Neutron performance worlds Eyematic's Shout3D java worlds Pulse Networks' episodic performance worlds Superscape's E-Visualizer and Viscape 3D browser, VWWW Worlds that were Communities.com, launched EC Habitats (Microcosm) in Beta and then the project was killed Sony Imagework's Community Place Browser Video avatars in NTT Software's videotar InterSpace Worlds Intel's original IDMOO and IDMOO 2.0 Sensemedia's The Sprawl Ligos' multi-user V-Realm Scenes From Brave New Worlds French speaking Avatar in Deuxième Monde A video avatar in NTT's InterSpace Worlds Superscape's Viscape Sensemedia's The Sprawl (another MOO with VRML) Note that this world may be offline now (RIP) Please send any comments on this website to author Bruce Damer © 1996-2006 Bruce Damer, All Rights Reserved.