Microsoft V-Chat is a
freeware
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3D chat program released in December 1995 by
Microsoft
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. V-Chat is a multi-user social chat client that lets people interact online from within a 2D or 3D multimedia environment using graphical representations of themselves known as avatars. V-Chat avatars have a full range of gestures that allow users to fully express themselves online. V-Chat enables users to select from a wide variety of existing avatars, or create custom avatars using the V-Chat Avatar Wizard. Sounds, animations, and visual imagery create mood and context for these graphical social environments.
It has now been discontinued; it can still be downloaded from other sites, such as
download.com. V-Chat was an experimental precursor to a more ambitious project called V-Worlds, which was completed but never widely deployed.
See also
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Microsoft Comic Chat
Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual W ...
References
External links
Internet Wayback machine Microsoft V-Chat page Archive
- Microsoft Chat
Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Wor ...
pages
* Drucker, Steven M. Shelly D. Farnham, and Marc A. Smith.
The Social Life of Small Graphical Chat Spaces
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Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments
Study conducted on Microsoft V-Chat
Download Version 2.0 of V-Chat at TucowsDownload Version 2.0 at the Internet Archive
Discontinued Microsoft software
1995 software
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