What IS The Palace?
The Palace is a metaverse, an entertainment enabling technology which makes possible a multimedia, graphically shared environment. It can best be described as a ‘multimedia chat architecture’. You can see, chat and interact with anyone else who is on the same ‘Palace server’. You have complete control over your appearance (known as your “Face” or “avatar”) — it might be a picture of your face or Bugs Bunny’s head. You can move through different “rooms” on that server and interact with games or other elements of the programmable environment. The way it works is most similar to the World Wide Web: there are clients (The Palace software) and servers (the PServer). Both are TCP/IP compliant, just like Web browser clients and Web servers. When a Palace client jumps to a Palace server URL, the client presents a virtual environment in which other avatars who are also on that server are visible — you can talk to them, interact with them, etc. — as well as The Palace environment on that serv
