fun warning, a one page website http://www.getafirstlife.com/
simulated reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
icongo the Montreal developper http://www.icongo.com/eng/news/redirect.cfm?sectionID=icongoNews.cfm
http://www.afhr.com/fr/index.asp?section=130
The grandad "alpha world" (1997) was replaced by second life where I was expropriated. I am now but a landless citizen of http://secondlife.com/
keeping an eye open for Google's incarnation Google MyWorld http://tech-trivia.blogspot.com/2007/09/googles-3d-world.html