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Sharon Burns profiles eight virtual worlds in eight minutes (video)

Posted on February 19, 2008 by

Sharon Burns of the MacArthur Foundation has released a neat video that gives a brief overview of several virtual worlds, with an emphasis on their educational applications.  In this eight-minute video she looks at HiPiHi, Club Penguin, Whyville, Webkins, Mokitown, There, Entropia Universe, and Gaia Online. Several of these I had almost no background on, so it was great getting this flyover.

Second Life will be featured in Sharon’s next installment of her video series. Awesome work, Sharon!

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  1. Rummer says:
    February 19, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Great summary! However the presentation of Entropia Universe was a bit off base, as Entropia is the only MMO with a real cash economy. It has a virtual currency with a fixed exchange rate to the US Dollar (10 Entropia dollars is 1 US) and you can both DEPOSIT or WITHDRAW virtual/real money. A skilled gamer can make REAL money by playing due to this. So it is both a game and an economy, a little like if you were to mix World of Warcraft with Second Life.

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