Free the Avatars

October 10, 2007 | Source: New York Times

At the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo at San Jose, Calif., IBM and Linden Lab are announcing plans to develop open standards that will allow avatars to roam from one virtual community to the next.

The goal is let a person create a digital alter-ego that can travel to many virtual worlds, keeping the same name, look and even digital currency, “a truly interoperable 3D Internet.”