Azurian
The Azurian
MMO is its own tech? Really?
Yes.Massive multiplayer Online Its the grandfather of immersion virtual worlds down the futire, and even thou its popular as Warcraft and The old republic, its a broad technology...also called Social Computing. Even thou right now its used mostly for MMORPGs it has a wide range of uses, and will continue to become more general in science, education, and collaboration.
GoToMeeting - business conferences in a virtual space
http://fold.it - solve protein folding with a group of people
7th generation game consoles - play with others around the world in a virtual world
Second life - virtual society
An MMO is an online community whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual, usually in a virtual world. Examples include networked multiplayer enhanced game consoles, (playstation 3 and Xbox 360), MMORPGS, (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game),virtual academic collaboration like Folding@home, and virtual societies like Second Life. The word "multiplayer" doesnt aways refer to the moniker used in PC and game consoles.