{"id":80,"date":"2007-09-19T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/19\/metaplace-like-second-life-but-open-from-the-start\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T15:14:18","slug":"metaplace-like-second-life-but-open-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/19\/metaplace-like-second-life-but-open-from-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaplace &#8211; like Second Life, but open from the start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaplace.com\/\">Areae<\/a> want to reinvent virtual worlds, using open standards and protocols. It sounds pretty good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Right now, there are lots of people who want to use virtual worlds for research, or education, or business, but it&#8217;s just too darn hard to get one going. Now [with Metaplace] you can create a world in just a few minutes and start tailoring it to your needs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely worth looking into, when they recover from the Slashdotting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much Areae&#8217;s announcment influenced Linden Labs to announce their plans for <a href=\"http:\/\/taotakashi.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/14\/linden-lab-reveals-the-future-of-second-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Read Linden Lab reveals the future of Second Life\">the future of Second Life<\/a> (or vice-versa). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areae want to reinvent virtual worlds, using open standards and protocols. It sounds pretty good: &#8220;Right now, there are lots of people who want to use virtual worlds for research, or education, or business, but it&#8217;s just too darn hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/19\/metaplace-like-second-life-but-open-from-the-start\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-isthmus","category-open-source","category-simulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}