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There is today a spate of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) on the net (http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/ indexes them), similar to the Metaverse in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (Stephenson, 1992). Some of these allow the users to construct buildings in the world, though in the majority the environment is fixed. These buildings serve as meeting points and atmosphere creators, but do not have any other meaning. Information can be presented in these spaces as imported objects or as placards with text and images placed in the environment.
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Jää-Aro, KM., Snowdon, D. (2001). How Not To Be Objective. In: Churchill, E.F., Snowdon, D.N., Munro, A.J. (eds) Collaborative Virtual Environments. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0685-2_8
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