The Web as an MMORG

Who needs to buy an extensive game client like WoW, Conan, or install huge things like Second Life, when the internet function you use most, namely http, port 80 or the www – whatever you like to call the internets – can BE the game, populated by thousands of denizens either playing a game or just hanging out.

weblin: chat with 3D avatars and instant messenger functions

weblin makes you and others on the Web visible as small avatars. There are others on the same page you are on right now. Weblin opens a new and exciting world on every web site.

PMOG is more of a game you play in your browser. You lay traps and earn badges, you as a character actively develop.

PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. To play, you’ll need to Get Firefox and Add Our Extension.

This game allows you to leave traps or gifts on any web page. You can also take missions across the internet, discovering new content while leveling up.

Rocketon is a free to play parallel word. It’s in alfa right now

Scientists closer to invisibility cloak

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This is U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation’s Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center funded and the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang claims to have manufactured materials that redirect the light around the objects.

In the past we’ve seen more of this, of course…

Invisible tanks using cameras

Light scattering invisibility sheilds

A mud / cream which makes you invisible to thermal cameras

Negative refractive index for visible light metamaterials

Which one(s) of these work(s)?