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What defines a Virtual World for you and differentiates it from a Virtual Space?

Deira Llanfair
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Join date: 16 Oct 2006
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06-19-2009 01:24
I can't see any essential difference - it's is just a matter of scope to me. A virutal space has many more limitations than a virtual world. Although, I don't think I would class any virtual environment as a "world" if it didn't have an economy - to be a world it needs to be large enough to have a viable economy, which links it to the real world economy.
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Melita Magic
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Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
06-19-2009 22:05
From: Pserendipity Daniels
Pep (It's the interaction with other non-RPC avatars that turns a Virtual Space into a Virtual World.)


This.

Although, imagination can populate the virtual space and make it a virtual world, as well.

/me waits for the inevitable dig about multiple personality.
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