Online Cities -- For Gaming
10 January 2003 - 11:00am
The latest online technology games are attempting to create multi-player online cities.
"Imagine a world where you could float to distant lands, find friends with the click of a button and build complex objects like houses instantaneously... [T]he latest online efforts are to produce "massively multi-person persistent online games," or MMPOG, where tens of thousands or perhaps millions of people can log on to a graphically drawn three-dimensional world.And rather than just a place to go kill aliens or solve a medieval quest, these new MMPOG appeal to online surfers' penchant for online socializing."
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Technology Review, January 9, 2003
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