LOS ANGELES — Remember how we were all supposed to do all our real-world shopping in virtual malls and hold our business meetings in virtual offices by now? Despite the ups and downs of highly ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - After 2-1/2 years of work and an investment of about $10 million (6.5 million pounds), DreamWorks Animation has started rolling out its first online virtual world -- a ...

Second Life is an online virtual world populated by avatars, where "residents" can socialize, network, play and build copyrighted creations like new fashions, artwork and software applications. Akin ...

A research team, led by North Carolina State University’s Dr. Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how “real” online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging ...

A group of researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where 25 characters, controlled by ChatGPT and custom code, live out ...