Avatars!: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet - Softcover

Damer, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201688409 ISBN 13: 9780201688405

Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam, 1997

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Avatars are digital representations of yourself on the Internet that enable you to explore virtual worlds - from downtown cityscapes complete with parks, bars, garbage dumps, golf courses, and superhighways, to tantasy environments with floating architecture and subterranean avator locomotion that break every law of physics. But exploring is just the beginning, as Avatars! Shows you how to become a digital homesteader, staking out and building your own virtual real estate.

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Bruce Damer is a founding director of the Contact Consortium, the first forum for the culture and contact in virtual worlds. He has also authored three successful software packages (The Elixir Desktop, ElixiFont, and ElixiGraphics--all sold worldwide by Xerox and IBM), and has marketed advanced software interface technologies from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

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Is there life after Web surfing? Yes, and with Avatars!, you can grab your avatar (a digital representation of yourself), run to the nearest virtual world, and experience a whole new Internet. Enter worlds where you take the shape of a butterfly darting in and out of the 3D world below, or where you assume the identity of a living cartoon-strip character talking in text bubbles above your head.

The only book of its kind, Avatars! focuses on what people do inside these virtual worlds, such as building three-dimensional structures, navigating through the worlds, and learning digital etiquette and social interaction skills. A CD-ROM provides readers with ready-to-run worlds that connect them with thousands of other people on the Internet and which are referenced in a companion web site that serves to keep virtual explorers abreast of the latest happenings in the various worlds.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0201688409
• ISBN 13: 9780201688405
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 552
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