![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | EA-Land: The Final Countdown - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
These are the last few minutes of EA-Land at the See You Soon Party in EA Town Hall, hosted by EA's Parizad. Tears are shed, final goodbyes are made, and lasting memories are created before the plug is pulled and the world is brought to an end. The party was held in the Community Pub (Test Center 3) and EA Town Hall (EA-Land), beginning Thursday, July 31st, 11 p.m and with a scheduled ending of 4 a.m...
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; Shutdown; Parizad; See You Soon Party; Town Hall; Degtiar
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| Game Capture: Archives of Multiplayer Game Worlds - Henry Lowood
"The history of multiplayer game worlds and virtual realities can be told with reference to a variety of documentary sources. Players find the most compelling "proof" of a memorable event or claimed exploit in visual documentation captured from actual gameplay: Screenshots or, even better, video recordings of the actual events. "Game Capture" glimpses moments from multiplayer games and virtual worlds through screenshots and video grabbed (and sometimes edited) by and for players." -- from the in...
Keywords: Massively Multiplayer Games; MUD1; Habitat; Ultima Online; Quake 2; Thresh; Billox; Everquest; Warcraft III; World Cyber Games; Star Wars Galaxies; LucasArts; Lucasfilm; World of Warcraft; Eve Online; Goonswarm; Red Alliance; Serenity Now; Second Life; Linden Lab; Hershman-Leeson, Lynn; Lowood, Henry; Bennetsen, Henrik; How They Got Game Project; Half-Life: Counter-Strike Mod; Team 3D
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| The Science Conference in WoW, 9 May 2008 - gathering before day 1 - Henry Lowood
Video capture from gathering before first day, 9 May 2008, of "Convergence of the Real and the Virtual," The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft. These video captures show the conference group gathering on the first day, before the session begins. Some shots include the user interface, some do not. The character whose view is shown is Liebenwalde(Henry Lowood). "This is a scientific conference to be held May 9-11, 2008, inside World of Warcraft, devoted to research on WoW and on vir...
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Convergence of the Real and the Virtual; Science magazine
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| Onlive Traveler: AVATARA Documentary by 536 Productions - Donato Mancini, Jeremy Turner & Patrick "Flick" Harrison (2003) - 536 Productions
AVATARA, a documentary about Traveler and its inahbitants (made in 2003) by 536 Productions of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Note that in the introductory audio dialogue, the speaker mentions the date of 1993, more likely this was 1996, the year Onlive Traveler was released to the public. This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Gone Gitmo - Bernhard Drax
This machinima documentary by Bernhard Drax is a "chronicle of the development of GONE GITMO, a virtual installation of Guantanamo Bay Prison in Second Life. GONE GITMO is a collaboration between Nonny de la Pena and Peggy Weil." For more information, see the Gone Gitmo website, http://gonegitmo.blogspot.com. This website also includes a direct link via SLURL to Gone Gitmo on Network Culture Island in Second Life...
Keywords: Second Life; Linden Lab; Drax, Bernhard; Weil, Peggy; De La Pena, Nonny; Gone Gitmo; Guantanomo Bay
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| The Matrix Online Presents Darther in pvp (Player vs. Player) Mode - Darther
Video captured by Darther, causing havoc on the Recursion server in The Matrix Online.
Keywords: The Matrix Online; Warner Brothers; Monolith Productions; Sony Online Entertainment; Darther (aka Noelg28 on Youtube)
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| Second Life: Escape From New York Roleplay - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
This dark roleplay simulator is based on a 1981 movie, Escape from New York. The synopsis is that "the city has been turned into a place where criminals reign, convicts are champions, and thugs take what they desire without consequence". The introductory area is a safe place outside of the city in which one can buy weapons, practice by sparring, and get acquainted with the region. Once we step inside, we can take a tour of the remains of this dystopian New York...
Keywords: Second Life; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Linden Lab; Roleplay; Escape from New York; Movie Themes; degtiar
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| Stanford University Libraries Open House in Second Life, 31 July 2009 - Karlsson, Jonas
This video, captured by Jonas Karlsson of the Xerox Innovation Group, documents an open house held on 31 July 2009 by the Stanford University Libraries in Second Life. Here is the text of the invitation to the Open House, by Mattie Taormina in the Stanford University Libraries, Dept. of Special Collections: "Colleagues, Have you heard about virtual worlds? Ever wonder what how they might be used in the world of archives and special collections? Come find out at Stanford University's Special Coll...
Keywords: Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources; Second Life; Linden Lab; Taormina, Mattie; Karlsson, Jonas; Libraries; Archives
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| Walljumpers - Peggy Weil and Nonny de la Pena
From the Walljumpers project - "WallJumpers Project A chronicle of the development of WALLJUMPERS, a transmedia project (Second Life, Machinima, Documentary Film, Google Earth) to leap over the world's separation border fences. WALLJUMPERS is a collaboration between Peggy Weil and Nonny de la Pena." - from the project website, http://walljumpersproject.blogspot.com/ "Acknowledgements. The Wall Jumper, a splendid novel by Peter Schneider introduced us to the notion of wall jumping...
Keywords: Second Life; Linden Lab; Drax, Bernhard; Weil, Peggy; De La Pena, Nonny; Walljumpers Project; Leuenberger, Christine; Salient Infinity; Sand Castle Studios
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| Gerald de Jong & Geometry @ Avatar Fools Day Party at Paul Lee's Santa Cruz CA (April 1, 1998)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| Lucasfilm: Habitat Live Screen Capture - Part 1 (by Kevin Elkin - Summer 1988) - Lucasfilm
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| A New Platform - Sirikata - Henrik Bennetsen
This video shows a pre-alpha stage of the new open source platform called Sirikata, now (early 2009) under development at Stanford University.
Keywords: Sirikata; Open Source; Stanford University
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| Lucasfilm & Quantumlink: Introducing Habitat - Lucasfilm, Ltd.
"Lucasfilm's Habitat -- it's a wonderful new place that's simply out of this world. Coming to life only on QuantumLink." Thus ends this remarkable demo of Habitat, Lucasfilm's graphical virtual world that ran on the QuantumLink (later known as AOL) network. Put together in 1986 by one the co-designer of Habitat, Chip Morningstar, this video addresses many of the features and issues of virtual worlds, such as avatar creation and experimentation with identities...
Keywords: Lucasfilm; Habitat; Morningstar, Chip; Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Contact Consortium: Avvy Awards @ Earth to Avatars (Oct 1996)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| The Art of Interactive Storytelling - Douglas Wilson
This video is one of two loops prepared by Douglas Wilson for an exhibit curated by Henry Lowood and Casey Alt of the How They Got Game Project, Stanford Humanities Lab, called "Fictional Worlds, Virtual Experiences: Storytelling and Computer Games." The exhibit was hosted by the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and ran from 12 Nov. 2003 through 28 March 2004. Featured games include Adventure, Ultima IV, Final Fantasy 4, Final Fantasy 7, Half-Life, The Secret of Monkey Island...
Keywords: Wilson, Douglas; How They Got Game project
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| Second Life: BBC Film Network Cinema - Bobsboxes - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
BBC Film Network Cinema presents Matt Watt's "Bobsboxes", a short film about a man and a woman inhabiting TVs in a TV shop. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: Second Life; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Linden Lab; BBC; Film; Cinema; Television; Bobsboxes; Matt Watt; degtiar
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| Second Life: The Pharm Dance Club - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Many players gather for dancing at a popular club in Second Life. It also features a camping system of sorts to make linden bucks (the currency in Second Life). This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: Second Life; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Linden Lab; Dance Club; degtiar
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| World of Warcraft Raid: The Dark Portal - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
The Caverns of Time are a collection of dungeon instances that contain a good amount of Warcraft lore. The quests lead you back through time to experience many eventful times in Warcraft history. In this instance, we defend Medivh against the Infinite Dragonflight in the Black Morass, who opens the Dark Portal between Azeroth and the Outland. A group of five players gets together to fight through the Black Morass and defend Medivh...
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Player vs. Environment; Instances; Dark Portal; Black Morass; How They Got Game; Clas; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Massively Multiplayer Games; degtiar
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| Daniel Terdiman - CNet - Stanford Humanities Lab
The idea is basically to get people to answer these four little big questions: 1. What excites you about current metaverse technology? 2. What concerns you about current metaverse technology? 3. What will be most the surprising impact of metaverse technology on society within the next decade? 4. What barriers will metaverse technology never overcome? Our hope is to build a time capsule. Feel very free to join us by adding your video to our open group at: http://youtube.com/group/metaverseu This ...
Keywords: metaverseu; metaverse; metaverse u; virtual worlds; stanford; timecapsules; Stanford Humanities Lab
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| World of Warcraft: PvP - Eye of the Storm - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Despcription and Context: Eye of the Storm is one of four Player versus Player(PvP) Battlegrounds maps where horde and alliance fight against each other and strive to control up to four nodes (Fel Reaver Ruins, Mage Tower, Draenei Ruins, and Blood Elf Tower. The more towers a team controls, the more points they get. Grabbing the flag from the middle and getting it to one of your controlled towers in one piece also increases the amount of points your team has...
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Player Vs. Player; Battlegrounds; Eye of the Storm; How They Got Game; Clas; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Massively Multiplayer Games; degtiar
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| Contact Consortium: Bruce Damer Hosts the Avvy Awards at Avatars99 (Dec 1999)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| Bruce Damer tour of worlds @ Avatar Fools Day Party at Paul Lee's Santa Cruz CA (April 1, 1998)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| Contact Consortium: Bruce Damer Hosts the Avvy Awards at Avatars98 (Nov 1998)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| EA-Land: Creative Survival Island - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Alphaville Granny Mabel shows me around her property, CreativeSurvival Island, an exact duplicate of the original popular property in the beta. Several signs and plaques describe CreativeSurvival Island's history, and is signed by many Sims. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; Creative Survival Island; Alphaville Granny Mabel; Degtiar
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| EA-Land: Hangout at Ice Palace - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Ice Palace offers a friendly environment to work on skills in the company of other players. Like with many other activities, chatting with other players is a large part of the excitement. As a fun extra, the Sci-Fi transformer lets you dress in a futuristic outfit. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; EA; The Iceman; Ice Palace; degtiar
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| Gary's Mod Jam Fruits Hi-Rez - Munroe, Jim
These are clips from a jam session six artists had with Gary's Mod for Half-Life 2.
Keywords: Half-Life 2; Half-Life 2: Garry's Mod; Valve Software; Munroe, Jim; videogame; videogame jam; jam session
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| Nogg-aholic_the_movie - Tobias "Dopefish" Lundmark
"Movie Summary Video: DivX 6, 2000kbps, 640x480 @ 25 fps Audio: Mp3, 56kbps, 24khz, Stereo Source: Fraps, 800x600 @ 25 fps Nominated for best tech, best audio and best WoW movie for the fourth annual Golden Llama Awards. Golden Llama Nominations Golden Llama Awards This is the long awaited sequal of Exploration the movie, I hope it hasn't became too hyped because of all the delays. Its been in over two months of production with over 50gb of raw data and almost 400 of unique clips, and it only to...
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Nogg-Aholics (Guild); Dopefish; Lundmark, Tobias; Forg
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| EA-Land: Sims Online Museum - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
MonkeyBear opens a museum showcasing the many popular, rare, and special objects and events that could be found in TSO/EA-Land over the years. From cannons to Mystic Trees to rare pets and old cities, MonkeyBear's Sims Online Museum leads us through a brief history of The Sims Online and EA-Land. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; Sims Online Museum; MonkeyBear; Degtiar
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| Second Life: Star Trek Museum of Science Cinema - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
A cinema in the Star Trek Museum of Science shows two Star Trek-themed commercials and a fan-made video. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: Second Life; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Linden Lab; Star Trek Museum of Science; Cinema; Videos; degtiar
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| Tabula Rasa: The Final Stand - Max "Sigoya" Taha
"Last night[28 Feb 2009], the MMO universe lost one of its own as Tabula Rasa 's AFS warriors stormed back to Earth for the final epic battle in New York's shattered streets. The battle was tough, but the fighters won, and the game was over. Thanks to the live team for the final stand and goodbye Tabula Rasa, we hardly knew you..." - Sigoya
Keywords: Tabula Rasa; Shutdown; NCsoft; Taha, Max; Sigoya
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| Borderlink Virtual Commedia dell Arte Project (May 2004) - Bonnie Devarco
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Electric Communities: On-Screen Demo of Avatar Entering New Room in EC Habitats (recorded 2006) - Electric Communities/Bruce Damer
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| OZ Virtual: Promotional Video (mid 1990s) - OZ Interactive
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| World of Warcraft: PVP -- "Learn to PvP" Raids Stormwind and Ironforge - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
A Horde Player vs. Player (PvP) guild called "Learn to PvP" raids Stormwind and Ironforge on the Frostmane realm (server). The raid begins with the first contact with the Alliance at the entrance of Stormwind, goes through runs as a ghost and attempts to rush back, and finally a run through the tram system along with a final rush into Ironforge. At the end, guild members see who can stay alive the longest in the enemy city...
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Guilds; Player vs. Player; PvP; Learn to PvP; raid; Stormwind; Ironforge; Frostmane; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Massively Multiplayer Games; degtiar
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| Contact Consortium: VLearn3D 2002 Visualizing Social Patterns - Katy Borner - Vlearn3D.org
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| SciCenter: Work & Play in Virtual Worlds - Genomics @ Summer Camp 2005 - Margaret Corbit/Cornell University
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Onlive Traveler: CNET Story - Demo (1996 or 97) - CNET
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Jorge Filho - Hoplon Infotainment - Stanford Humanities Lab
The idea is basically to get people to answer these four little big questions: 1. What excites you about current metaverse technology? 2. What concerns you about current metaverse technology? 3. What will be most the surprising impact of metaverse technology on society within the next decade? 4. What barriers will metaverse technology never overcome? Our hope is to build a time capsule. Feel very free to join us by adding your video to our open group at: http://youtube.com/group/metaverseu This ...
Keywords: metaverseu; metaverse; metaverse u; virtual worlds; stanford; timecapsules; Stanford Humanities Lab
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| SciCenter: Work & Play in Virtual Worlds - Orientation @ Summer Camp 2005 - Margaret Corbit/Cornell University
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Allan Lundell: Veronica Chardon Performing as a Motion Captured Avatar (SIGGRAPH 2001) - Contact Consortium
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Shout Interactive: Leaving the Fold - Demo of Eyematic Facestation (early 2000s) - Shout Interactive
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Contact Consortium: Alex Lightman Interview @ Avatars97 (Oct 1997)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| Digibarn: Maze War on Xerox Workstations by Don Woodward (Nov 2004) - DigiBarn Computer Museum
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Contact Consortium: Jim Funaro Interview at Avatars97 (Oct 1997)
From the private collection of Virtual Worlds pioneer Bruce Damer
Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection
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| EA-Land: Living at Home - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
This sparsely-furnished home demonstrates the basics of buying furnishings and satisfying a Sim's needs such as food, hygiene, bladder, and sleep. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group at Stanford University.
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; EA; Aso; Thornbury; Living at Home; degtiar
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| EA-Land: SM Village - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
SM Village was a relaxing and civilized place to visit and say goodbye to friends as EA-Land neared its closing. A festive theme with classical music playing in the background, this property saw the end with class.
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; SM Village; Matt C; goodbye; Degtiar
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| EA-Land: Wedding - How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Many players looked to EA-Land for a full range of reality-like interactions, including the option to get married with other players. Although slow to get started, partly due to computer problems on the bride's side, The Iceman and Sheebs MacCloud exchange vows and rings and are married. Marriages in virtual reality can be difficult, but we find that love is possible even in virtual worlds. This footage was captured as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by the How They Got Game group ...
Keywords: EA-Land; The Sims Online; Archiving Virtual Worlds; Electronic Arts; EA; The Iceman; Sheebs MacCloud; Ice Island; Wedding; degtiar
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| Metaverse U Conversation: Christian Renaud, Reuben Steiger and Byron Reeves - Stanford Humanities Lab
From the Metaverse U Conference: http://metaverse.stanford.edu
Keywords: metaverseu; metaverse; metaverse u; virtual worlds; stanford; stanford humanities lab
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| Lucasfilm: Club Caribe Live Screen Capture - Part 3 (by Kevin Elkin - Summer 1988) - Lucasfilm
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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| Digibarn: Maze War Presentation by Greg Thompson - Second Short Segment (Nov 2004) - DigiBarn Computer Museum
This footage was supplied to the Preserving Virtual Worlds project by Bruce Damer from his collection of videos documenting the history of virtual worlds.
Keywords: Virtual Worlds; Bruce Damer Virtual World Videos Collection; Damer, Bruce
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