Having designed one kitchen already with Ikea's kitchen planner 3D tool, I decided to give realxtend a go. My world hosted at simhost.com served as the testbed. Conclusion: Despite shortcomings offers a great way to experience spaces that do not exist.

Ever pay the requisitely outrageous ticket price to watch a much anticipated movie only to walk-away shaking your head…it just wasn’t realistic enough. The plane crash and automobile accident just didn’t seem real.

What do you get if you have a flexible virtual worlds platform (realxtend), a good idea and a good artist?

OSGrid has been a place to start for all those interested in opensim for a while. By that, more and more people knew about osgrid, but newbies did not find interesting content, people and places. Now with the UFS the first major roleplay group made a step from Second Life into osgrid, bringing great content.

I collected the best videos to show off open source virtual worlds. Take a look and comment if you want to add something I missed.

We are pleased to announce that we have unveiled a new Project Wonderland web site today. This web site, which you can access by navigating to ProjectWonderland.com, will now be the main portal for the project.

What to expect - and what not - Industry leading expert Megan Rutherford analyzes Virtual Worlds trends for 2010.