museum metaverses

Museum Metaverses

Richard UrbanUniversity of Illinois

http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban

Virtual Worlds

Multi-User Virtual Environment

• Persistent• Focused on Social

Activity• A platform for building

3D social spaces and activities

• Self-identified and/or socially defined goals

Why MUVEs are not Games

• What is a game?– Rules & Procedures– Objectives and goals - A quest– Provide challenges (and the challenge is the fun)– If the challenge and the player are well matched

there is a state of flow.

See Jesper Juulhttp://www.jesperjuul.nettext/withoutagoal/

Growth of Online Worlds

Growth of MMOG

Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

Subscriptions over 300K

Courtesy http://mmogdata.voig.com/

Second Life Residents

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

200620062006200620062006200620062006200620062006200720072007200720072007200720072007

Resident Registrations Unique Residents Population

http://www.secondlife.com

Number of User Hours (millions)

http://www.secondlife.com

Age in Second Life

Reported Age of Second Life Avatars

13-17

18-24

23-34

35-44

45 plus

unknown

Museums in Second Life

Science

Art

Van Gogh Museum

Architecture

Basilica of Saint Frances of Assisi

Archeology

Xibalba Maya Museum

History

Swedish Institute

Fantasy

Jules Verne Museum

Education

The Big Picture - Beyond Second Life

It’s not just Second Life

•There.com

•Virtual Laguna Beach

•Active Worlds

•Kanaeva

•Entropia

•Club Penguin

•Multiverse

•Whyville

•OpenSim

•Croquet Project

•Metaverse Roadmap Project

Metaverse Standards and Protocols

• OpenID

• Portable avatar standard(IBM/Linden Labs)

• Open Source SL Client– OnRez viewer/CSI Game

• Open source SL Server

This slideshow will be available at:

• http://www.slideshare.net/musebrarian

• http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban

Second Life SLURLs (Gridmarker)

• http://tinyurl.com/2gwjaa