5/30/2023 0 Comments Cybertown virtual worldsAnd in the 3D world, that's actually quite similar". You just wouldn't do that in the real world, people would be quite annoyed with you. "While two avatars were talking to each other in the virtual world, another avatar forced its way between them. Surprised to have found out that "a lot of the 'social protocols' from the real world are still valid in the virtual realm," he recalls how colleagues of his had tried it once. Meanwhile, in the house's entrance hall, the so-called lapidarium, its multimedia lounge and arts gallery users can wave and chat to other avatars, and discuss the World Music Night in DW-3D's chatroom.īut mind your manners, even in the virtual world, says Professor Wolfgang Prinz from the Insitute of Applied Information Technology at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in St. Once logged into the DW-3D community and having chosen a virtual representative, users can stroll through the interactive house, and partake in various activities.įor the big night on Sunday, numerous avatars are expected to gather in the houses' fourth room, the concert hall, to watch a live-stream of the Weltmusiknacht, or World Music Night. The figures up for choice range from spiky-haired to elegantly dressed women, and men in spacey jumpsuits. On entering, participants can choose, and adopt a 'virtual persona', or so-called avatar. The "virtual house" on the DW-3D web site, for which you need a special plug-in (downloadable from the website) is modelled on a real building in Berlin. Here, Deutsche Welle has created a three-dimensional world which integrates both the multimedia cultural programs from DW-RADIO and DW-TV, as well as the possibility to play games, to take part in quizzes, to communicate in chat-rooms and look at virtual exhibitions. Feel like going out this weekend, but too tired to go? Bored with what's on? Interested in music, but nothing to listen to this weekend? For all these cases, the Deutsche Welle has a solution: This Sunday, users in countries all over the world can listen and watch to this year's World Music Night, or Weltmusiknacht on Bonn's Museum Square - the Deutsche Welle will be showing it at their new virtual culture venue, DW-3D, which will be launched on the same day.ĭW-3D is a special web site, set up for the project ().
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