For two and a half months I worked at Realtime Worlds as part of the Project: MyWorld team. The following is a description of MyWorld taken from its website:
Project: MyWorld is the “Placebook” for a next generation of social games.
Project: MyWorld turns the real world into a 3D social gaming experience. Project: MyWorld is a platform for creating a virtual version of the real world and combining it with 3D online gaming and social networks and media.
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Basically, MyWorld is a virtual recreation of the real world. Currently this covers the entirety of britain – every building, every road, every tree – its all virtually recreated in MyWorld. The entire world can then become a playground in which social games (fishing, farming, house-trading, etc) can be played. In addition to this, several differing forms of social media such as facebook and Twitter have been fully integrated.
On this project I worked offsite at The University of Dundee working alongside academic researchers to investigate into differing new technologies that could be used to improve MyWorld.
