A virtual world (or Métavers) is a world created artificially by a computer program and lodging a community of users present in the form of misadventure S and being able to move there and interact there. The representation of this world and its inhabitants is into two or three dimensions.

This world can simulate the real-world, with its physical laws such as gravity, time, the climate, the geography. The human laws can also be reproduced. The communication enters the users is generally done in the form of text.

One finds most of the time virtual worlds in the Online games massively multijouor (mmog) like Second Life , Entropia Universe , The Sims Online , There and particularly in the Mmorpg like EverQuest , Ultima Online , Lineage , Guild Wars , ArchLord or World off Warcraft .

One can also include in the virtual worlds the whole of the drifting universe of the various roleplays on table: each roleplay has one or more " monde" in which the players can evolve/move under the supervision of the Master of the play which invents and defines these worlds.

List virtual worlds of Video games

List virtual worlds of fantastic Roleplays/Récits

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