Active World Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Access Blocked

  If you got the software anywhere else than activeworlds.com then you should not trust it, period. Real AW software frequently updates and installs patches to itself and some outside party may well be trying to utilize this for their own purposes and would be suspect. Source: over 1 year ago

• Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal

  This is very reminiscent of Active Worlds[1][2], right down to how you drop-in and interact with the world. Would have thought after 25-years we would have developed the value proposition better, and not the client. 1. https://activeworlds.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• What are some obscure and old MMO's/virtual worlds that miraculously still exist?

  Activeworlds ! This may be the first online 3D multi-user social virtual world, launched in 1995, eight years before Second Life which it shares quite a few things in common and was clearly a huge design influence on. Including vehicles, flight and water, player-built structures and object scripting. It was pretty mind-blowing to experience in the late 90's. It's pretty miraculous this is still kept alive, though... Source: about 3 years ago