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• 04.13.08
  My Avatar is Portable (and itsy bitsy) Applications and Tools, Identity and Expression, Virtual World Platforms | (3)

  Thanks to Digado for pointing out a few advances related to the development of avatars. I was particularly stunned by the animation demo coming out of RealXtend, which is increasingly pushing the boundaries of what a "grid" can do (try hosting 80+ avatars and 100,000 prims on a sim! There's still glitches but they're onto something over there). I've talked before about how the metaverse is already here, it's just hidden off in little corners. Now Weblin let's you carry the avatar concept of the metaverse with you - primitive, sure, and it's really just a "flat" chat client that is ...

  Tagged: avatar, metaverse, PMOG, weblin
  

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