While there is a bit less freedom for users to construct the background space than in the text-based worlds, there is creative play with images as can be seen in this next screen. ColeyFish from Hawaii spams the group. You can see the message for the bus tour over the image for the bus. There are hundreds of Palace worlds with many of them in different countries. However only a handful are listed in the index for kids and for education .
Any web community can design and maintain palace forums for students.
Many different companies are currently developing online 3-D chat worlds with avatars, for example Promondia , IBM Virtual World , The Intel Distributed Moo , Shared Spaces , Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment and Worlds Chat . The first Dive version appeared in 1991 and in the current version users navigate in 3D space and see, meet and collaborate with other users and use applications in the environment. In the Dive world you find actors, who can be either a human user or an automated application process. The body-icon may be used as a template on which the actor's input devices are graphically modeled in 3D space. It reads the user's input devices and maps the physical actions taken by the user to logical actions in the Dive system.