Rate (which I won’t go into here) and cities have to be purchased with it. A lot better than loading upĮven a great looking place and seeing no one but yourself. And Kaneva, which will launch the player via a button on your profile page. A few exceptions to these are Vivaty, which has a list of roomsĪnd who, or at least how many people are in them and even has a icon in the task bar that alerts you when people are active. People get to know each other, and I don’t see the social networking end of itĪs a replacement. I find this to be counter intuitive to letting Or ‘buddy’ list, you cannot tell if there is anyone in-world unless you happen With Blue Mars and a few others, unless you have people in your ‘friends’ There were lists of places and whether there were people there or Hard to impossible to find anyone in-world. There are other tools in the browser to go home, see your friends list and There are also actions that let your avatar shake hands or hug another avatar. Including ‘painting’ the face to create a beard or an effect of your choosing.
You can customize the look of your avatar You can activate actions for your avatar by right clicking itĪnd choosing from the action menu. And it is definitely easier than the little There are 4 stages of zoom in the tool bar at the bottom. Looking around is accomplished by a right click andĭragging around. Navigating is by left-mouseĬlicking a point distant from you and your avatar will walk to it. Onceĭownloaded you can then enter the city or place. Presented with a welcome screen that contains a list of places to visit.Īnd cities have to be downloaded and some are quite large files. You have to register for a user account, of course.
It is just short of a 400 meg download so be You can download tools to get into object or even city There is a separate developer’s page and account for those who wish to To push the social networking end as hard, but it hasn’t hurt them either, as Second Life and some others haven’t felt the need I am guessing this particular model helps keep the world browser simple and lets the user load up all their info on their contact page. Of Facebook/Myspace and Virtual Worlds when I first tried IMVU, and then with
I personally noticed this trend towards a hybrid At this time it doesn’t look as friendly or as L ike most of the newer platforms coming out, you get a profile page withįriends list, bio, etc. Almost everything you would expect out of a quality computer game. It is very powerful, has great shading and light mapping, the features mentionedĪbove and it also has dynamic shadowing. For those of you into gaming, that would be the game engine Crysis Graphics, beautiful worlds, and great physics, everything you would expect fromĪ really good game. I have been playing with it on and offįor a while now and thought I would give a few impressions.