An Early Avatar-Mediated 3D Wiki
The ViOS experiment can be thought of as what might now be called a type of 3D wiki, and owing to its built-in text-based chat, and customization capabilities, it anticipated current server-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) systems such as Second Life and annotatable virtual contexts such as Google Earth. Unfortunately, the company was unable to secure a planned second round of venture financing due to bursting of the dot-com bubble and associated lack of investor interest in continued financing of technology companies reliant on advertising-based revenue models. Lacking needed resources, the company was therefore unable to market to advertisers or effectively maintain its server infrastructure and functionality to support continued positive user experiences. Within a few weeks of the public launch in February 2001, the company's website and application servers were brought down by a rapidly growing user-base of well over 15,000 unique subscriber-users .
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