Welcome to Raph Koster's personal website: MMOs, gaming, writing, art, music, books.

Korea gets into metaverses

April 9th, 2007

The Electronic Times is reporting that “3D virtual reality service reviving in Korean market.” Specifically, that people are seeing all the attention paid to Second Life, and are getting projects underway.

Among them, Real Time Worlds Asia (any connection to Real Time Worlds in Scotland, the guys doing APB?) says they’re making an SL clone with the Unreal engine. And there’s another one called Azitro that is launching next month and features a very charming line art style on its website — but not in its world, based on the screenshots, which look a lot like SimCity.

The article also introduced me to a Korean world I had never heard of: Dadaworlds, which looks like a Shockwave virtual world with a very heavy dose of cyberoptimism and a lot of real world tie-in.

“There will be about 100 of Second Life resemblance this year,” Director of Acid Crebiz, who developed virtual reality for the first time in Korea, forecasted. Meanwhile, developed by Shin Yoo-Jin, architectural engineering professor at Kwangwoon University, the first virtual reality service DadaWorlds once had over 100,000 users, but now there are only 200 users.

*

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Korea gets into metaverses”

Jump to reader comments » | Leave a reply »

Trackbacks & Pingbacks
  1. ¥á¥¿¥Ð¡¼¥¹-metaverse information wrote on

    (clickableculture) 04/10 05:03 Xbox Live and Windows Live Messenger to be Bridged in May 2007 (clickableculture) 04/10 03:59 Brazilian Art in SL as 3pointD Holidays in Rio (3pointD.com) 04/10 03:45 Korea gets into metaverses (Feedster on: metaverse) 04/10 03:32 Young Scientists Design Open-Source Program at NASA (Feedster on: second life) 04/10 03:29 Short Circuits (Feedster on: second life) 04/10 03:27

  2. 한RSS wrote on

    [...] DadaWorlds once had over 100,000 users, but now there are only 200 users. 댓글달기 http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/04/09/korea-gets-into-metaverses/#comments The Sunday Song: The March of the Elephants Raph 2007-04-09 07:26 작성 | Music This is an [...]

  3. Read Message wrote on

    [...] of living people…. CAMLAW : Complementary And Alternativ… – http://www.camlawblog.com/ Korea gets into metaverses By Raph The Electronic Times is reporting that “3D virtual reality service reviving in Korean [...]

  4. Korea Companies embrace Virtual Worlds - Why? - PlayNoEvil Game Security, Game Cheating, Gold Farming and RMT News & Analysis wrote on

    [...] Companies embrace Virtual Worlds – Why? Courtesy of Raph Koster. I’m not sure why or if they are copying Second Life or Cyworld, but we shall see. The cynic in me [...]

  5. Korea Online Games - PlayNoEvil Game Security, Game Cheating, Gold Farming and RMT News & Analysis wrote on

    [...] Companies embrace Virtual Worlds – Why? Courtesy of Raph Koster. I’m not sure why or if they are copying Second Life or Cyworld, but we shall see. The cynic in me [...]

Reader Comments
  1. Beano Lee said on

    Everyone’s really jumping onto this SL wagon very fast, isn’t it?

    If some of them come up with better editing tools than SL, they might just make it real big…

Page optimized by WP Minify WordPress Plugin

Meta

Recent Comments

Categories

Tags

Recent Trackbacks

Archives



A Theory of Fun
for Game Design

Book cover for A Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster

Press
Excerpts

Buy from Amazon

Twitter @raphkoster



The whole Web

Raph's Website

See popular posts »



After the Flood

After the Flood CD Cover

Available as MP3 download
$14.99


More stuff to buy

ORPG Rorschach Test T-Shirt

ORPG Rorschach Test
Organic Cotton T-Shirt

$18.99


LegendMUD

click here to visit the Legend website

"The world the way they thought it was..."