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System requirements: XP, 800mhz PC, graphic card
and high speed internet access.
Cost: Free; you are homeless but can visit and rent land.
72$US gives you tier fees for 512m2 of land and 177 prims. You need to buy
land.
Average daily on line community: 60,000 to 70,000
Graphics: Game quality you will need that high end graphics card.
Camera controls: Excellent.
Protection of creative works: Excellent.
Privacy: Minimal; unless you own a very large Sims.
Creative tools: On line boxes, circles, triangles etc very limited; any
nice creation drives the prim of object sky high.
Avatars: Life like; flexi ability creates very life like
animations. Skin tones excellent.
Currency: L$ 100L$ = US$0.36 in real life fluctuates.
Pros: The scripting ability to operate vehicles cars, boats, etc excellent.
Cons: Constant requirement of L$ to upload textures, sounds and
animations. You will easily spend thousands of L$ here.
Support: Excellent.
Comments: Second life is an excellent 3DChat/Virtual World with
unlimited possibilities and the added bonus to make real money.
System requirements:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista, 128 MB RAM, dial-up internet access and you are
good to go.
Cost: Free Basic but you can only visit or be visited by paid members. 60$US
gets gold membership and most of the privileges.
Average daily online community: Figures are no longer visible most likely
the on line has dropped to an embarrassing low.
Graphics: Average to poor.
Camera controls: Poor.
Protection of creative works: Non existent.
Privacy: Excellent. Beware!
Parental guidance is strongly recommended for
young users this program runs on a P2P platform.
Creative tools: A plus for this program is the ability to create off line
items and objects using standard 3ds files.
Avatars: Bulky, female avatars should stick to wearing
pants; dresses have no flexing. Skin tone textures bleed. A view from afar
is best.
Currency: C$ 1C$=US$.00 in real life.
Pros: Cost nothing to stay home by yourself and decorate.
Cons: The inability to create true transparent textures, outdated doors language, last
significant updated in 2002, small community lots of infighting.
Support: Non existent.
Comments: Lacking real world usage of objects Moove is really a
3D Chat program rather than a Virtual World.
System requirements: XP or Vista, 400MB hard disk space, 512 MB RAM,
High-speed connection, graphics card, 2GHz or faster processor.
Cost: Free Basic This gives you a loft and some furniture.
Average daily online community: n/a
Graphics: Excellent.
Camera controls: Poor.
Protection of creative works: Excellent.
Privacy: Good
Creative tools: Poor at moment only clothes can be made.
Avatars: Fair.
Currency: Reward points and credits used to purchase Kaneva
items. 2000credits cost 9.99$US. 1credit =0.0$US
Pros: Free uploading.
Cons: At the moment not user friendly.
Support: Good.
Comments: New 3DChat/Virtual World some time may be necessary to see full
potential.
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