Museum Metaverses Richard Urban University of Illinois http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban

Virtual Worlds M ulti- U ser V irtual E nvironment Persistent Focused on Social Activity A platform for building 3D social spaces and activities Self-identified and/or socially defined goals

M ulti-

U ser

V irtual

E nvironment

Persistent

Focused on Social Activity

A platform for building 3D social spaces and activities

Self-identified and/or socially defined goals

Why MUVEs are not Games What is a game? Rules & Procedures Objectives and goals - A quest Provide challenges (and the challenge is the fun) If the challenge and the player are well matched there is a state of flow . See Jesper Juul http://www.jesperjuul.nettext/withoutagoal/

What is a game?

Rules & Procedures

Objectives and goals - A quest

Provide challenges (and the challenge is the fun)

If the challenge and the player are well matched there is a state of flow .

See Jesper Juul http://www.jesperjuul.nettext/withoutagoal/

Growth of Online Worlds

Growth of MMOG Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

Subscriptions over 300K Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

Second Life Residents http://www.secondlife.com

Number of User Hours (millions) http://www.secondlife.com

Age in Second Life

Museums in Second Life

Science

Art Van Gogh Museum

Architecture Basilica of Saint Frances of Assisi

Archeology Xibalba Maya Museum

History Swedish Institute

Fantasy Jules Verne Museum

Education

The Big Picture - Beyond Second Life It’s not just Second Life There.com Virtual Laguna Beach Active Worlds Kanaeva Entropia Club Penguin Multiverse Whyville OpenSim Croquet Project Metaverse Roadmap Project

It’s not just Second Life

There.com

Virtual Laguna Beach

Active Worlds

Kanaeva

Entropia

Club Penguin

Multiverse

Whyville

OpenSim

Croquet Project

Metaverse Roadmap Project

Metaverse Standards and Protocols OpenID Portable avatar standard (IBM/Linden Labs) Open Source SL Client OnRez viewer/CSI Game Open source SL Server

OpenID

Portable avatar standard (IBM/Linden Labs)

Open Source SL Client

OnRez viewer/CSI Game

Open source SL Server

This slideshow will be available at: http://www.slideshare.net/musebrarian http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban Second Life SLURLs (Gridmarker) http://tinyurl.com/2gwjaa

This slideshow will be available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/musebrarian

http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban

Second Life SLURLs (Gridmarker)

http://tinyurl.com/2gwjaa