"Minecraft is more than a great game franchise – it is an open world platform, driven by a vibrant community we care deeply about, and rich with new opportunities for that community and for Microsoft," Mr Nadella said.
"Minecraft is more than a great game franchise – it is an open world platform, driven by a vibrant community we care deeply about, and rich with new opportunities for that community and for Microsoft".
San Francisco startup RocketOn, the company behind a virtual world platform that bares the same name, has more tricks up its sleeve and is today showing off the second product it created.
Meet-Me is a Japanese virtual world platform which shares many similarities and characteristics with Second Life, and has potential language learning opportunities.
But you can't no-platform your foes in a world where platform construction kits are given out free with every computer.
Finally, Niantic also disclosed early details on its "Real World Platform" — a set of cross-platform (iOS and Android) tools and APIs it's been working on for third-party developers to build on top of.
Today, it's a new world — platforms are mainly mobile, so service has to be provided in an array of devices.
The core of this framework is an Opensim-based virtual world platform, known as OPENET4VE, that is compliant with the IMS Learning Design specification and that has the ability of monitoring and registering the events generated by students and teachers.
Outside is a world of platform boots, patchouli and zen; inside, Terry and June is on the TV, and all is tedium and beigeness.
