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

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Presented at the 35th Annual Museum Computer Network Conference, Chicago IL. November 7, 2007http://www.mcn.edu

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Museum Metaverses

Richard UrbanUniversity of Illinois

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

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Virtual Worlds

Multi-User Virtual Environment

• Persistent• Focused on Social

Activity• A platform for building

3D social spaces and activities

• Self-identified and/or socially defined goals

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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 Juulhttp://www.jesperjuul.nettext/withoutagoal/

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Growth of Online Worlds

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Growth of MMOG

Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

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Subscriptions over 300K

Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

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Second Life Residents

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

200620062006200620062006200620062006200620062006200720072007200720072007200720072007

Resident Registrations Unique Residents Population

http://www.secondlife.com

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Number of User Hours (millions)

http://www.secondlife.com

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Age in Second Life

Reported Age of Second Life Avatars

13-17

18-24

23-34

35-44

45 plus

unknown

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Museums in Second Life

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Science

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Art

Van Gogh Museum

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Architecture

Basilica of Saint Frances of Assisi

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Archeology

Xibalba Maya Museum

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History

Swedish Institute

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Fantasy

Jules Verne Museum

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Education

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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

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Metaverse Standards and Protocols

• OpenID

• Portable avatar standard(IBM/Linden Labs)

• Open Source SL Client– OnRez viewer/CSI Game

• Open source SL Server

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This slideshow will be available at:

• http://www.slideshare.net/musebrarian

• http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban

Second Life SLURLs (Gridmarker)

• http://tinyurl.com/2gwjaa