Comments on: Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse

By: William Burns

William Burns — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:35:06 +0000

I'd like to add that a majority of people writing about virtual worlds these days are under the mistaken assumption that before SecondLife there was nothing. "...after 4 years of being the only user-created 3D online world on the commercial market..." is incorrect. There are many competitors still in this specific market, and I can name at least the granddaddy of them all - ActiveWorlds.com who offers the commercial equivalent of the entire SL Grid if you want it. They also have in-world building as well as the ability to import custom models.

While not as wholly advanced as SecondLife, the Activeworlds.com platform still has a lot to offer commercial aspects, and there are quite a few businesses which utilize the platform instead of SL - purely on stability and cost factors alone.

For all of these self described metaverse experts, one would think they would at least do their homework before writing on the subject. I read something similar on the RiversRunRed website as they triumphantly proclaimed to be the first business in a virtual environment (or something similar). It's a disregard for history and the entire market which make me laugh at these experts...

By: Pace

Pace — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:39:41 +0000

Two years later, and I still hadn’t heard of Multiverse, but they’re still around, and their technology looks pretty solid even though their popularity is still nothing to rival SL.

By: grucidus

grucidus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:50:19 +0000

after 3 years of faithful and loyal service to Secondlife, ,Linden Labs decided to renig on accepting my postal money orders or cashiers checks, they are in my opinion not intrested in my fair payment, they are only intrested in credit card numbers and bank account numbers, why? because you can’t “hack ” into a money order or cashiers check, I believe that Linden Labs are just waiting for the right time to “hack ; into its patrons bank and credit card accounts,why else would they not accept a postal money order or cashiers check ? “I’v offered them fair payment for services , and their response ir basically ” Your money isn’t green enough !” , So my final response to them before deleting my account , was” You can take this SL bubble and CRAM IT UP YOUR ASS,
If my money is “green enough” for its “competetors, they can count me in!!!

By: Virtual Worlds Hub

Virtual Worlds Hub — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:21:21 +0000

Second Life have some other competitors too: Kaneva, Entropia Universe, and software to build virtual worlds like Project Darkstar: http://www.virtualworldshub.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:29:21 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:01:35 +0000

I don't see it being much like SecondLife tbh, but thanks for the post! :D I am going to check it out.. seems like a interesting idea.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:40:01 +0000

I hate virtual reality software like "The sims". Also, thats why I dont like "Second Life". I cant even consider it a "game". Thats why I like this new project and they will have my support; it was time!.

By: The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-04

The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-04 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:17:02 +0000

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By: Marek

Marek — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:13:29 +0000

What about Sony Home? It is the beginning of game 3.0 in online communities. But its only accessible via PS3.

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By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:18:51 +0000

Looking forward to this new competition. Bookmarked the site so I can check out their development tools.

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By: Possible Second Life Competitors « The Grid Live

Possible Second Life Competitors « The Grid Live — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:38:37 +0000

[...] The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isn’t a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the company’s 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 it’s too early to know how it’ll 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. The system and revenue model is markedly different from SL, however: instead of fostering user-created content in a single world, Multiverse is a network of worlds accessible by the client software. It comes with e-commerce tools built into the system, so developer’s can earn an income, while Multiverse makes money by taking a 10% cut of that revenue. Source: Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse [...]

By: Corey Bridges

Corey Bridges — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:13:04 +0000

Great post and talkback. It's great that folks are able to discuss the nuances of what we're doing at Multiverse.

Just to add even more info, we don't actually host the worlds for our customers. It's much more of a WWW model, where anyone can download our servers, and install them wherever they like. And as noted, all of these worlds can be accessed through our world browser.

BTW, the world browser isn't actually changeable by anyone--not in a permanent way. We have a client plug-in system, where special functionality for a specific game can be attached temporarily to the world browser, just as custom shaders and a world-specific UI can be attached. Gwyneth is quite correct that if we let customers actually permanently change the world browser, then that would completely undo the notion of a universal client.

Thanks again, all.

--Corey Exec Producer, Multiverse