Woodham is an art professor who teaches sculpture and 3-D design at the University of Cincinnati. I wanted to share the experience with other viewers. You can build after you receive an e-mail immigration number, which allows you to access the site and determines your property rights. To build, you can obtain materials from a construction yard complete with a growling guard dog. You can even argue with your virtual neighbors.
Avatars can communicate with other avatars and move about in virtual space.
Though AlphaWorld attempts to approximate the natural world, there are certain advantages to a computerized environment. Gravity is optional and you can pass through other people and objects at will. Alpha World and other 3-D sites are constantly under development. Rather than interacting with their computers, people interact through their computers, with people and objects they find in ever-changing virtual worlds. There are even societal 3-D web sites such as Sherwood Forest, an AlphaWorld community complete with its own code of conduct, cultural events and even regularly scheduled cocktail parties.