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To: maxum who wrote (226)	10/24/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: SgtPepper	of 228

I love the avatar concept as a "shared" virtual experience. Improvements in multimedia are still needed. True voice chat capability, and avatars with "talking head" shots from PC-mounted cameras are now possible. The AWLD site looked great when I first saw it a few years ago, but now it looks like clunky, old, proprietary game software from the PAC-MAN generation. I am not as familiar with WLDI software, but I imagine it to be similar. I have owned both companies in the past, with mixed feelings as an investor. The only other one I follow in this area is PCTR. They aren't derived from a 3-D chat environment like WLDI or AWLD. Perceptronics evolved into an internet company from a background in networked 3-D wargaming for Dept of Defense. High tech stuff, in its day, before the net as we know it. Now porting their proprietary IC3D software for internet use. The real issue here, in my mind, is who will make the multiplayer, interactive 3-D avatar thing work within a standard browser. WLDI and AWLD both developed their own "browsers" to support 3D. IMO, the average internet user does not want to download and install new software to visit a site. Multiple users at different locations requires that many people download and install the same software. Hence the limited success of WLDI and AWLD. PCTR is working with an ad agency to develop multiuser, 3-D web shopping capability for some big name clients. I read a suggestion somewhere that their stuff will be XML based, and not require that a new browser be installed.

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