Multiverse has created a technology for creating virtual worlds that others can customize as they like. The company is announcing a series of deals at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles today.
Each deal is interesting in itself. The first is that Mountain View, Calif.-based Multiverse will develop a virtual world based on James Cameron's "Titanic" movie. Dubbed "Places in Time: Titanic," the world will educate its users about the historic Titanic voyage, allowing users to explore the ship's construction, its voyage, and the undersea wreck. It will incorporate digital footage, computer models, and an encyclopedia of data collected by Cameron. It will be offered for free. Now we can all get a taste of what it was like to sail with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The Titanic virtual world will be just one part of Multiverse's collection of virtual worlds, dubbed Multiverse Places, which uses the underlying Multiverse Platform technology for creating and connecting multiple virtual worlds. Multiverse is also building an online game based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Multiverse Places is currently in beta testing. Anyone can access the 3-D virtual worls once they have installed a fairly lightweight Multiverse World Browser, available for free. Multiverse Places will be a connecting hub for a bunch of worlds and it will also have its own scenery: a virtual rendition of New York's Times Square.
