From their site:Our goals are sort of idealistic. We think there are all kinds of things on the Internet that would be improved if anyone could have a virtual place of their own. Right now, there aren't enough good games, for example, and they all seem to be about elves in tights or soldiers in battle armor. Metaplace allows more diversity. Right now, there are lots of people who want to use virtual worlds for research, or education, or business, but it's just too darn hard to get one going. Now you can create a world in just a few minutes and start tailoring it to your needs. Basically, we wanted to democratize the process of making online spaces of all sorts.Time to start learning Lua...
Edit: More info here...
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I hope this is the future.
Ooooh wow:
"The big thing is the virtual currency. There’s going to be a virtual currency on Metaplace. Building a small world is free. As soon as your world starts getting really heavy (bandwidth, users, that kind of thing) we’ll start charging you for it, but we’ll charge you in the virtual currency. You will be able to buy the currency from us, use it for hosting, for buying style sheets, modules, whatever. These modules and such might be made by other players. It is a player-to-player marketplace using this virtual currency. You might make a popular world and charge users in the virtual currency to help defray the hosting costs or even cover them completely. If you turn a profit, and you’re an approved business partner, we’ll let you cash you."
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