Other Virtual Worlds

Second Life and Wonderland are not the only virtual world environments by any means. Below is a partial list of interactive environments with at least 1 million registered users.


* Sun's DarkStar and Wonderland platform and client - open source projects
* Croquet Project Consortium - open source
* There.com
* Twinitiy
* Habbo Hotel - the world's largest virtual hangout
* Utherverse
* Gaia
* Stardoll - design a celebrity avatar
* Meez - create and export your own 3D avatar
* vMTV - MTV's Virtual World chatroom
* Active Worlds
* Entropia Universe
* Kaneva - a Virtual World for gamers
* Hipihi - Chinese Virtual World
* Cybertown - Civilization for the Virtual Age
* IMVU - 3D chat
* moove online
* 3B - your personalized 3D space in the 3D browser
* Gogofrog
* Club Marian

To view research on current Virtual Worlds including demographic breakdowns, case studies, and diagrams please visit KZero

Research on Virtual Worlds in Education


KZero - virtual world research and case studies across multiple areas
Wonderland 0.5 - documentation on the progression of the 0.5 client
References on SL use in education - developed in Virginia Tech
Virtual Worlds Biblioographic List
Annotated bibliography of Second Life On-Line Resources - developed by Purdue Uinversity 
The University of Michigan 3D Lab - From their website "In response to increasing demand, the UM3D Lab has begun investigating the popular online world called Second Life." Feb. 1, 2007
The SimTeach 12 - The Who, When, Where and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006
Compiled by Jeremey W. Kemp, MEd, MSJ, December 2006, www.simteach.com
Conklin, M. S. (2005). 101 uses for second life in the college classroom
Second Life as a Teaching Platform - among SLresidents
Chris Dede, Second life chat

Videos


These videos highlight the potential of Virtual Worlds in Education.

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Engineering - civil and mechanical

Autodesk
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Autodesk/118/118/23/?title=Autodesk%20island
    - tutorials and examples on importing architectural plans and building
    - integration of Maya and SL

Eolus One - Building Information Management (BIM) models - Oliver Goh (Eolus McMillan)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EOLUS/60/141/31
    - virtual worlds communication interface (VWCI)
    - a tool for monitoring building automation 

Gateway Technical College
http://www.gtc.edu
    - civil engineering training through Merlin's Institute of Technology in SL
    - many write ups on their SL training but have not been able to locate campus, have found the group associated with it however

Public Works Island - Pam Renoir, Owner (Pam Ock)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Public%20Works/43/54/31/
Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) - Texas A&M (TEEX Clary)
    - Bridge maintenance
    - URL www.teex.org/eu
    - SLEngineer Magazine

Russ College of Engineering and Technology, University of Ohio
http://slurl.com/secondlife/OHIO%20Outreach/119/201/32/
    - engineering classroom

Transportation Models

Berkurodam
http://slurl.com/secondlife/gualala/169/30/24/?title=Berkeley%20BART%20ver.%201.1
http://secondlifegis.com/
    - Simulater Geographic Information Systems - SIMGIS
    - guiding construction and monitoring traffic through the use of georeferenced maps
    - originally designed to track snow plow routes through the Downtown Berkeley area of California

Creative Research Lab (CRLab) - University of Montana - Terry Beaubois, Director
http://www.montana.edu/crlab/
    - traffic flow studies of West Oakland, CA
    - urban renewal projects
    - URL http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451110&nbsp;

STEM work in Second Life

SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-ENGINEERING-MATH

Universities 

Elon University: Elon, NC
http://www.elon.edu 

Northern Michigan University, BIOME sim (Contact: Clowey Greenwood)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/BIOME/143/171/34

Drexel University (Contact: Horace Moody)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/125/178/25
Chemistry Corner
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/241/177/23

The University of Denver, Science School sim -  (Contact: zazen Manbi)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20School/180/152/29

University of Ohio, Russ College of Engineering and Technology
http://slurl.com/secondlife/OHIO%20Outreach/119/201/32/

Organizations

Svarga by Laukosargas Svarog
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/05/god_game.html

SciLands
http://www.scilands.org/

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) sims (Contact: Hackshaven Harford)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okeanos/64/217/30
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/08/18/noaa-comes-to-second-life/

Second Health, NPL (Contact: Davee Commerce)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Health%20London/125/207/27
http://secondhealth.wordpress.com/

Exploratorium (Contact: Patio Plasma or Pepto Majestic)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/147/118/21
http://www.exploratorium.edu/worlds/secondlife

Institute of Physics Experimental Plots (Contact: Phenomenon Young)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rakshasa/201/14/26

Science Friday (NPR radio show) (Contact: Ira Flatley)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20Friday/215/233/22

The Second Life Planetarium (Contact: Chaac Amarula)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/13/30/23

Cybrary City, Stanford Science & Engineering Libraries (Contact: Susan Lightfoot)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/212/118/24

Seifert Surface's Math-Related Creations
Mathematical Sculpture Garden: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Future/73/69/240
Hypercube: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kirkby/225/229/24
Crooked House: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Future/121/150/506

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE): Washington, DC/Eugene, OR
http://www.iste.org/secondlife/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/80/30/
http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net

Public Works Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Public%20Works/43/54/31/

People

Aimee Weber's Lab (Contact: Aimee Weber)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerce%20Een/149/224/31
Eclipse Building by Aimee Weber and The Exploratorium (Contact: Aimee Weber)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Midnight%20City/97/66/28

Foreign Language Landmarks 

Universities

Campus Hamburg
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/111/100/21

University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg)
Contact: Magister Euler

 - Crossmedia-Projekt: Eventmanagement im Sport
   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/67/203/22
 
- Students@work: Projects for and from Students
   Contact: Tyke McMillan aka Torsten Reiners (reiners@econ.uni-hamburg.de)
   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21/?title=Students@work

 - Institute of Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik)
   Contact: Tyke McMillan
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21[]

Sungshin University - Korea
http://slurl.com/secondlife/joongang/144/235/21

Link Campus University - Rome, Italy
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Link%20Campus%20Island/237/129/28/
http://www.unilink.it/
Contact: Grazia Torsiello (Frizzetta Winx) - Email: g.torsiello@unilink.it

Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Polyusotel/128/128/0
School of Hotel & Tourism Management
http://virtel.shtm.polyu.edu.hk/sotel/
Contact: Paul Penfold (Paul Allandale)
Email: hmpp@polyu.edu.hk

Language Lab
http://www.languagelab.com/en/

Universita degli studi di Cagliari - Itlay
http://wwww.unica.it
http://people.unica.it/secondlife/

URLs 

Foreign Language Volunteers
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Languages_spoken_by_Volunteers

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