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Virtual Worlds Today: Gaming and Online Sociality.

Gordon Calleja

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Gordon Calleja gives an historical overview about the history of Virtual Worlds. In his article “Virtual Worlds Today: Gaming and Online Sociality” he thus focuses on the problems that come with trying to define “virtual” and “Virtual Worlds” and gives an illustrative overview about various types of different so-called Virtual Worlds.

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Key concepts: Metaverse, Sociality, Computer science, Social worlds, Virtual world, Virtual reality, Human–computer interaction, World Wide Web