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3D World Comparison Table
Who are the 3D world competitors? 32 known to date. What criteria should be used to evaluate 3D worlds? What are the most current resources documenting and reviewing such development?
| Criteria | MaDiViWorld | Metaverse | Croquet | Muppets | ActiveWorlds | Worlds | Outerworlds | There | DreamlandPark | ||
| contact data | | support@worlds.com | addresses; opportunities@thereinc.com | contacts | |||||||
| reviews | 0.5.1, last updated Aug, 04 | wikipedia | alphaware | W-Post, 11/5; | |||||||
| ed worlds | yes | ||||||||||
| ed discount | open source | open source | open source | open source | 15% | ||||||
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| cost of world annual license fee running from their servers | $2019 | no price listed on site, emailed them. | prices identical to activeworlds.com so suspect somebody bought somebody out. Have not done feature set comparison to see if any differences in software | ||||||||
| one independent server world | Galaxy, buyer's server, one world, 250 user, 1,440,000 sq. meters, $3,995 | | current costs page 96 sim. users, 4,000,000 square meters, $2999 | ||||||||
| cost universe purchase, 250 users, 4 million sq meters, buyers server, multiple worlds, one time fee | $24,970 | ||||||||||
| audio chat capable | no, perhaps next version | ||||||||||
| flexibility | |||||||||||
| visual detail quality | |||||||||||
| bandwidth | does low bandwidth well | ||||||||||
| maximum # of simultaneous users per world | |||||||||||
| ease of building | |||||||||||
| cross-platform requirements (Mac, Linux, Win) | download for all 3 | java based | Win only, 500 MB hard drive space | ||||||||
| purchase or annual license | |||||||||||
| audio chat | |||||||||||
| Compatible with which 3D design programs | TrueSpace3.2(free); Truespace7.1 ($800); | ||||||||||
| association with non-G rating activity | yes, anyone can buy server, no policy on rating use | ||||||||||