Gary Hazlitt reminds us that "this is not a game"

Via FutureLab, I've just discovered this video by one of our own: NPIRLer, metaverse developer, marketer, musician, and film maker (among other things), Aussie Gary Hazlitt (aka Gary Hayes).

In it, Gary tours over 50 social virtual worlds in the "current metaverse." As he points out, there are "300 million frequenting or registering for the non-game based worlds and millions of new investments in 2nd and 3rd generation services."



Of the virtual worlds featured here, I have only been to Second Life®, There, HiPiHi, Spore, and Lively.

Kaneva
YoVille
RocketOn
Prototerra
Gaia Online
HiPiHi
Google's Lively
Habbo Hotel
Laguna Beach (vMTV)
Whyville
Twinity
Cyworld
Football Superstars
Weblin
IMVU
Second Life®
Club Penguin
Active Worlds
vSide
A Tale in the Desert
Barbie Online
Amazing Worlds
Webkinz
Worlds.com
Spore
Exit Reality
SpineWorld
Stardoll
The Manor
There.com
Vastpark
Qwaq
PS3Home (Sony Playstation)
GoSupermodel
Grockit (Live interactive learning)
Croquet, peer-based messaging protocol, now building Cobalt (open source and multi-platform metaverse browser)
Metaplace
Coke Studios - There.com
Dreamville (Now appears to be defunct)
Dubit
Mokitown (MobileKids)
Moove
Muse - No longer exists?
The Palace
Playdo
Sora City - Defunct
Voodoo Chat - Animated graphics-based chat
TowerChat
DigitalSpace Traveler
Virtual Ibiza

If you see great virtual content being developed by residents of any of these worlds, would you please let us know? Especially if it is Not Possible IRL (NPIRL).

Interestingly, while Vivaty is not featured in Gary's video, nor on this list, I was running a search for virtual worlds on Google, and Vivaty trumped Lively in the ad section on the right hand column. Heh.

See also:
* Gary Hazlitt's "Hide and Seek"
* Gary's machinima "Second Spring," featuring DanCoyote Antonelli's ZeroG SkyDancers
* Karma in Second Life (Thursday's Fictions)
* Fireside chat with Gary Hazlitt (my interview with him before he joined NPIRL)
* Dancing with Angels machinima by Gary Hazlitt
* Whitenoise travels from Second Life to Google's Lively
* Your name in virtual worlds is your brand
* Feel like straying into a new metaverse? (HiPiHi)
* Someday, a galaxy of metaverses
* AngryBeth Shortbreak talks about Twinity