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October 15, 2007
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New Straits Times
10-15-2007
Opening up virtual worlds
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Tech & U; Update

THE creator of Second Life and technology stalwart IBM announced last Wednesday they have joined forces to knock down walls separating virtual worlds on the Internet.

The US firms are using a Virtual Worlds Expo and Conference in San Jose, California, to promote enabling people's animated online personae, referred to as "avatars," to freely roam from one virtual world to another.
Currently, avatars are trapped in the virtual worlds in which they are created.

Since people routinely spend hours customising online proxies with hairstyles, tattoos, wardrobes, skin tone and more, they ...

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