Early Update on Areae's Metaplace

Areae will be unveiling its new product, Metaplace, this afternoon at the TechCrunch40 Conference and pushing the Metaplace website live in just over an hour. While looking around for some background information, I came across the CrunchBase entry for Areae, with a little more info on the company than I'd seen before:

Areae's Metaplace platform wants to revolutionize the virtual worlds space. Their platform will provide an open, easy-to-use interface which will allow users to create virtual worlds that can run anywhere. Metaplace-created virtual worlds will be robust with users being able to play games, socialize, create content and conduct commerce.

Most virtual worlds are walled gardens making it hard to get data in and out of the worlds. Metaplace-created virtual worlds can be embedded into your Facebook page, MySpace page, or your own blog via a flash-based client widget. Every world is indexed, tagged and rated by users on the Metaplace portal, so virtual worlds in the Metaplace network can be easily linked together.

The Metaplace network links all the worlds together. Each of them can be completely different including virtual apartments for decorating, plazas where readings and musical events happen, space-action games, full-blown MMORPGs, casual games, and Amazon storefronts.

Check back in a little while for more info on the big unveil.

Comments

[Nate Randall]

Nice find. I can't wait to poke around the site myself.