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FEATURE: 18:00 18 April 2014 The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon TODAY: 17:39 18 April 2014. Universal avatars bestride worlds. A virtual character, or avatar, for all the virtual worlds in which people play is the goal of a joint project between IBM and Linden Lab. The computer giant and the creator of Second Life are working on universal avatars that can travel between worlds. The project aims to open up virtual worlds by introducing open tools that work with any online environment.
The companies hope to boost interest in virtual worlds as well as make them easier to navigate. Character sheet At the moment every virtual world requires a player or user to go through the process of creating an avatar that will act as their proxy in that online environment. Typically, an avatar created for one world, be it a game or a system like Second Life, cannot move between these different virtual spaces. The project started by IBM and Linden Lab aims to create a universal character creation system so people only have to create a digital double once.
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