While Virtual Places' online events and guided tour functions have business applications, the overall experience is too fanciful for anything but commercial Web sites. You can select from a series of default avatars or design one for yourself. Each avatar contains images representing a range of emotions and gestures, making it easy to convey anger or just simply to wave hello and add tone and body language to your words. Virtual Places boasts several features that help create communities. You can also stage online events in a community auditorium.
Users can listen to a featured speaker and ask questions.
The server components install easily but require a great deal of memory and processor speed. The HTML-based administration is easy to handle remotely. Virtual Places includes strong monitoring tools such as word-filtering, which can screen out and replace objectionable content. Access control was not as full featured as in, say, VolanoChat. You cannot restrict access based on domain or IP address, and you can't permanently ban specific individuals from accessing your site.