Daden creates World Finder, a virtual world selection tool

May 18, 2011 - PRLog -- A simple virtual world selection tool, known as World Finder, has been created by virtual world specialist's Daden Limited to help businesses and organisations choose between competing platforms for their projects.

World Finder is based around 12 key virtual world features which have been chosen as they highlight the biggest differences between available virtual world platforms. The rating of each world against these features are based on Daden's extensive experience of nearly a hundred virtual projects over the past 5 years.

David Burden, Daden's MD said, "Although we've seen some platforms fall by the wayside those that remain are getting steadily more powerful, so it's actually harder to make the right choice. World Finder was designed to capture our feelings as to the relative strengths of each platform and to make it easier to show clients the pros and cons of each in any given situation. Having created the tool as an app it seemed sensible to share it with the wider community."

The 12 features assessed by the tool are:

- Whether users can build and customise in-world
- Quality of graphics
- Size of area modelled
- Ability to customise the client
- Whether the user is represented by an avatar
- Whether its for solo or group use
- Whether it runs in a browser, mobile or just as a PC application
- Whether it can be deployed on servers behind a firewall
- The robustness and security of the code
- Whether you can import existing 3D model
- Whether the vendor is stable, and the user community well developed and of course cost!

David continues "We were keen to make sure the criteria were an even balance of user, technical and commercial features. All too often the debate about virtual worlds is solely about technical issues like visual quality and bandwidth".

The initial version of World Finder focuses on the 4 platforms supported by Daden in its work with clients: Second Life, OpenSim, Vastpark and Unity. Later versions of World Finder may be extended to include other virtual worlds and game engines.

You can use the Finder at: http://www.daden.co.uk/world-finder/

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DADENLIMITED is a virtual worlds agency based in Birmingham, UK. We offer consulting advice, design and build services, and have special expertise in the areas of web and real world integration, and creating interactive virtual personalities.