Vastpark.com - New Virtual HangOut

Should you be craving for another virtual metaverse-- if Second Life just isn't cutting it and you're not up to venture into those cute but too tottish kid worlds—give VastPark a glimpse. While it's free for everyone, you can purchase for $19 a Pro Creator account, giving you 1GB of storage and bandwidth for two years. As a member, you can create your own world and tap into other worlds within one seamless framework. This means virtual content can be transported across different communities without the necessity of downloading different software. VastPark incorporates metagames, widgets, 3D building functions, scripting tools, and texture mapping. There's no currency lock-in either, so creators can make up their own marketplace and economic systems. VastPark is currently in beta, and it's free to download.

"VastPark is a virtual content platform that enables you to create and deploy your own 3D virtual world within minutes. Play with ideas, add physics, trial concepts and publish them online. You might not have used 3D before, but you can do this!"

Sounds pretty cool. The inter-world portability would seem to make up for any gaps one might experience in visual art or undesirable characters you happen across in other metaverses like second life. Gives users a place to get creative and have fun.

Will it be all that's hyped to be? Is it just another Second Life?