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RE: Multiverse

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Get ready to hop your avatar onto a hoverboard and fly seamlessly between Second Life and There.com. To buy armour or gold pieces in World of Warcraft or EverQuest II with actual dollars or euros. Or to pack up your 3D models from a Multiverse virtual world and take it with you to Gaia Online.
Welcome to virtual world interoperability: a new era where the many previously walled-garden virtual worlds can share content, currency and even identity, all in the guise of making life easier for end users and, ideally, for enterprises trying to leverage the Second Lifes of the world for businesses purposes.

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Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership Tuesday that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google's online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse, as well as terrain from Google Earth.
The idea is simple: Multiverse's technology--which gives game developers tools to design custom virtual worlds--will let those designers pick and choose from most of the millions of 3D models created using Google's 3D software tool SketchUp, and to import pieces of terrain, as defined by entering specific longitude and latitude data, from Google Earth.

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Multiverse Press Release
Aug 3, 2007

"We're passionate about empowering our customers to create the next wave of online experiences..."

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Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse
The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isnt a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the companys development tools, which are then run on its servers. (Like Dark Horizons, a sci-fi MMORPG pictured here.) Version 1.0 was just rolled out yesterday, and though its too early to know how itll fare, one thing is official: after 4 years of being the only user-created 3D online world on the commercial market, Second Life now has competition.

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