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| Microsoft V-Chat | |
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 Microsoft V-Chat in Windows XP | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Release | December 1995 |
| Stable release | 2.0
/ January 1998 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | 3D online chat |
| Website | vchat1 |
Microsoft V-Chat is a freeware 3D chat program released in December 1995 by Microsoft. V-Chat is a multi-user social chat client that lets people interact online from within a 2D or 3D multimedia environment using graphical representations of themselves known as avatars. V-Chat avatars have a full range of gestures that allow users to fully express themselves online. V-Chat enables users to select from a wide variety of existing avatars, or create custom avatars using the V-Chat Avatar Wizard. Sounds, animations, and visual imagery create mood and context for these graphical social environments.
It has now been discontinued; it can still be downloaded from other sites, such as download.com. V-Chat was an experimental precursor to a more ambitious project called V-Worlds, which was completed but never widely deployed.[citation needed]
