By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog)

[OnHollywood] Avatar and alternate self solutions had a prominent presence at the OnHollywood conference here in West Hollywood:

Club Cooee (above) combines online and offline social experiences via 3D environment and characters. Club Cooee users can create their avatar and fully customized 3D rooms—fully furnished and accessorized—and keep them running on their desktops. Artifacts in the room can be linked to other websites users like, the environment can be integrated into other websites, and members can be invited to spend instance in each others’ rooms for a real-time chat. Club Cooee dubs their solution “the next generation messaging and communication system, which adds visual, emotional, and personal experience The application is <3 MB in size which enables it to run seamlessly and stay “always on” on users’ desktop. Users meet, chat, flirt, share media files and build new friends from all by the world within 3D rich media chatrooms including video and pictures screens, music streams and direct urls to websites. As you can imagine, opportunities for monetization are immense—from branded elements in rooms to micro-transactions on media substance to user-generated-content.

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[Source] dhiram