The Vesuvius Group

The Vesuvius Group is proud to participate – with the Center for Public Diplomacy and Metaplace (Raph Koster, the founder of Metaplace, as usual, writes a very smart blogpost about the future of virtual worlds and how we can take our place alongside other social media in getting the news out) – in presenting the [...]

We were a vendor this past weekend at the Virtual World Best Practices in Education 09, and had a great time meeting people and going to presentations. Lots of insightful stuff, which we hope have been blogged about around the web.
For now we have these textures we made for our vendor spot.

Google dropped a bomb on the virtual world market today by releasing a new virtual world called Lively. I’m not writing a deep review yet, my first impression is that it feels like IMVU. It is better then IMVU though, you can at least move your avatar around a room, but the best part is [...]

A new Sunday a new record.
Statistics compared to Sunday, February 17th:
Peak concurrency grew 896 users, a increase of 1.41%.
Minimum concurrency dropped 454 users, a decrease of 1.30%.
Median concurrency dropped 253 users, a decrease of 0.53%.

Saturday’s Peak was a new Saturday peak concurrency record.
Statistics compared to Saturday, February 9th:
Peak concurrency grew 125 users, a increase of 0.21%.
Minimum concurrency dropped 75 users, a decrease of 0.21%.
Median concurrency grew 4,992 users, a increase of 11.33%.

Statistics compared to Wednesday, February 6th:
Peak concurrency dropped 779 users, a decrease of 1.35%.
Minimum concurrency grew 749 users, a increase of 2.48%.
Median concurrency grew 528 users, a increase of 1.24%.

Metaplace is the in development virtual worlds platform, that will let you make your own virtual world for any platform. They are still in Alpha but slowly ramping up to a Beta.
2 weeks ago they had a Public developer chat, which they held in world via a web client. Next Friday 5pm PST they will [...]

A small unreported drop happened during peak concurrency.
Statistics compared to Monday, February 4th:
Peak concurrency grew 1,166 users, a increase of 2.03%.
Minimum concurrency grew 1,477users, a increase of 4.64%.
Median concurrency grew 773 users, a increase of 1,75%.

Login issues during peak times prevented concurrency to reach a even higher record. Normally peak concurrency is a hour later around 14:40.
Statistics compared to Sunday, February 3rd:
Peak concurrency grew 2,283 users, a increase of 3,75%.
Minimum concurrency grew 1,568 users, a increase of 4.75%.
Median concurrency grew 2,296 users, a increase of 5.09%.