Socializing virtual worlds with Facebook: a prototypical implementation of an expansion pack to communicate between Facebook and OpenSimulator based virtual worlds

Authors:
Christoph Trattner;Michael Erwin Steurer;Frank Kappe
Affiliations:
Graz University of Technology, Austria;Graz University of Technology, Austria;Graz University of Technology, Austria
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present a prototypical implementation of a novel expansion pack called OMFacebook for OpenSimulator based virtual worlds. The idea is to provide the user with a light-weight platform-independent Web application to communicate with friends from the virtual world and therefore profit from the success of Facebook as a social network platform. This add-on is to the best of our knowledge the first approach to allow the user of an OpenSimulator based virtual world to connect an in-world avatar with an existing Facebook profile.