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h2. Other Virtual Worlds
h4. {color: black} Second Life and Wonderland are not the only virtual world environments by any means. Below is a partial list of interactive environments with at least 1 million registered users.
* [Sun's DarkStar|http://www.projectdarkstar.com/?cid=921781] and [Wonderland platform and client|https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/?cid=921781] \- open source projects
* [Croquet Project Consortium|http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page] \- open source
* [There.com| http://www.there.com/]
* [Twinitiy|http://www.twinity.com/en]
* [Habbo Hotel| http://www.habbo.com/] - the world's largest virtual hangout
* [Utherverse| http://www.utherverse.com/]
* [Gaia| http://www.gaiaonline.com/]
* [Stardoll| http://www.stardoll.com/en/] - design a celebrity avatar
* [Meez| http://www.meez.com/] - create and export your own 3D avatar
* [vMTV|http://virtual.mtv.com/homepage/] - MTV's Virtual World chatroom
* [Active Worlds|http://www.activeworlds.com/]
* [Entropia Universe| http://www.entropiauniverse.com/entropiauniverse/]
* [Kaneva|http://www.kaneva.com/vworld/vworld.kaneva] - a Virtual World for gamers
* [Hipihi | http://www.hipihi.com/index_en.html]- Chinese Virtual World
* [Cybertown | http://www.cybertown.com/]- Civilization for the Virtual Age
* [IMVU| http://www.imvu.com/] - 3D chat
* [moove online| http://www.moove.com/]
* [3B|http://3b.net/browser/newhome.html] - your personalized 3D space in the 3D browser
* [Gogofrog| http://www.gogofrog.com/]
* [Club Marian| http://www.maidmarian.com/]
To view research on current Virtual Worlds including demographic breakdowns, case studies, and diagrams please visit [KZero|http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/]
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h2. Research on Virtual Worlds in Education
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[KZero|http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=2092] - virtual world research and case studies across multiple areas
[Wonderland 0.5|https://wonderland.dev.java.net/index2.html] - documentation on the progression of the 0.5 client
[References on SL use in education -|http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=References] developed in Virginia Tech
[Virtual Worlds Biblioographic List|http://vworlds3d.googlepages.com/home]
[Annotated bibliography of Second Life On-Line Resources |http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib]\- developed by Purdue Uinversity
[The University of Michigan 3D Lab|http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/software/second_life/index.html] \- From their website "In response to increasing demand, the UM3D Lab has begun investigating the popular online world called Second Life." Feb. 1, 2007
[The SimTeach 12|^simteach12_06.pdf] \- The Who, When, Where and How of Second Life as a _Teaching_ Tool in 2006
Compiled by Jeremey W. Kemp, MEd, MSJ, December 2006, [www.simteach.com|http://www.simteach.com]
[Conklin, M. S. (2005). 101 uses for second life in the college classroom|http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/gst364Win2005/handout.pdf]
[Second Life as a Teaching Platform - among SLresidents|https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/educators/2006-July.txt]
[Chris Dede, Second life chat|http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chris_Dede_Transcript_10_July_2006]
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h2. Videos
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h2. Engineering - civil and mechanical
Autodesk
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Autodesk/118/118/23/?title=Autodesk%20island]
- tutorials and examples on importing architectural plans and building
- integration of Maya and SL
Eolus One - Building Information Management (BIM) models - Oliver Goh (Eolus McMillan)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/EOLUS/60/141/31]
- virtual worlds communication interface (VWCI)
- a tool for monitoring building automation
Gateway Technical College
[http://www.gtc.edu]
- civil engineering training through Merlin's Institute of Technology in SL
- many write ups on their SL training but have not been able to locate campus, have found the group associated with it however
Public Works Island - Pam Renoir, Owner (Pam Ock)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Public%20Works/43/54/31/]
Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) - Texas A&M (TEEX Clary)
- Bridge maintenance
- URL www.teex.org/eu
- SLEngineer Magazine
Russ College of Engineering and Technology, University of Ohio
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/OHIO%20Outreach/119/201/32/]
- engineering classroom
h2. Transportation Models
Berkurodam
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/gualala/169/30/24/?title=Berkeley%20BART%20ver.%201.1]
[http://secondlifegis.com/]
- Simulater Geographic Information Systems - SIMGIS
- guiding construction and monitoring traffic through the use of georeferenced maps
- originally designed to track snow plow routes through the Downtown Berkeley area of California
Creative Research Lab (CRLab) - University of Montana - Terry Beaubois, Director
[http://www.montana.edu/crlab/]
- traffic flow studies of West Oakland, CA
- urban renewal projects
- URL [http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451110 ];
h2. STEM work in Second Life
SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-ENGINEERING-MATH
h3. Universities
Elon University: Elon, NC
[http://www.elon.edu]
Northern Michigan University, BIOME sim (Contact: Clowey Greenwood)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/BIOME/143/171/34]
Drexel University (Contact: Horace Moody)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/125/178/25]
Chemistry Corner
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/241/177/23 |http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/125/178/25]
The University of Denver, Science School sim \- (Contact: zazen Manbi)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20School/180/152/29]
University of Ohio, Russ College of Engineering and Technology
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/OHIO%20Outreach/119/201/32/]
h3. Organizations
Svarga by Laukosargas Svarog
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22][http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22]
[http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/05/god_game.html]
SciLands
[http://www.scilands.org/]
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) sims (Contact: Hackshaven Harford)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27]
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okeanos/64/217/30]
[http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/08/18/noaa-comes-to-second-life/]
Second Health, NPL (Contact: Davee Commerce)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Health%20London/125/207/27]
[http://secondhealth.wordpress.com/]
Exploratorium (Contact: Patio Plasma or Pepto Majestic)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/147/118/21]
[http://www.exploratorium.edu/worlds/secondlife ]
Institute of Physics Experimental Plots (Contact: Phenomenon Young)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rakshasa/201/14/26]
Science Friday (NPR radio show) (Contact: Ira Flatley)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science%20Friday/215/233/22]
The Second Life Planetarium (Contact: Chaac Amarula)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/13/30/23]
Cybrary City, Stanford Science & Engineering Libraries (Contact: Susan Lightfoot)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/212/118/24]
Seifert Surface's Math-Related Creations
Mathematical Sculpture Garden: [http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Future/73/69/240]
Hypercube: [http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kirkby/225/229/24]
Crooked House: [http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Future/121/150/506]
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE): Washington, DC/Eugene, OR
[http://www.iste.org/secondlife/]
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/80/30/]
[http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net]
Public Works Island
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Public%20Works/43/54/31/]
h3. People
Aimee Weber's Lab (Contact: Aimee Weber)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerce%20Een/149/224/31]
Eclipse Building by Aimee Weber and The Exploratorium (Contact: Aimee Weber)
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Midnight%20City/97/66/28]
h2. Foreign Language Landmarks
h3. Universities
Campus Hamburg
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/111/100/21]
University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg)
Contact: Magister Euler
\- Crossmedia-Projekt: Eventmanagement im Sport
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/67/203/22]
\- Students@work: Projects for and from Students
Contact: Tyke McMillan aka Torsten Reiners ([mailto:reiners@econ.uni-hamburg.de])
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21/?title=Students@work]
\- Institute of Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik)
Contact: Tyke McMillan
\[[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Campus%20Hamburg/71/58/21]\[\]
Sungshin University - Korea
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/joongang/144/235/21]
Link Campus University - Rome, Italy
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Link%20Campus%20Island/237/129/28/]
[http://www.unilink.it/]
Contact: Grazia Torsiello (Frizzetta Winx) - Email: g.torsiello@unilink.it
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Polyusotel/128/128/0]
School of Hotel & Tourism Management
[http://virtel.shtm.polyu.edu.hk/sotel/]
Contact: Paul Penfold (Paul Allandale)
Email: hmpp@polyu.edu.hk
Language Lab
[http://www.languagelab.com/en/]
Universita degli studi di Cagliari - Itlay
[http://wwww.unica.it]
[http://people.unica.it/secondlife/]
h3. URLs
Foreign Language Volunteers
[http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Languages_spoken_by_Volunteers]
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