Academy Award-winning Producer and Multiverse Advisor, Jon Landau, announced three new in-development projects from the developer of virtual world development platform multiverse. The company has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising to develop a Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMOG and Places in Time: Titanic, "the world's first interactive learning experience"; both to be launched as part of Multiverse Places, a zoned, open source virtual world.

Multiverse Places is currently in beta, and currently offers application for social networks and a 3D virtual world that users can access once they have installed the Multiverse World Browser. Both are available for free and places is intended to serve as a connecting hub to the wider Multiverse Network for worlds and special zones built by third-party development teams and partners using Multiverse's open source technology.

Using the technology, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMOG is to allow players to play in either 3D or 2D (with both players inhabiting the same spaces) and is to go into beta before the end of the year. Discussing the project, Corey Bridges, co-founder and Executive Producer, Multiverse, said, "Not to give away too much, but when the 'Buffy' team finished the television series, they created the perfect launching point for an MMOG where everyone will feel like they're an important character in the ongoing story."

Relatedly, Fox's previously announced MMOG based on Joss Whedon property Firefly (also using Multiverse's technology) has been delayed.

Places in Time: Titanic is to "combine qualities of massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds into a new form of experiential learning," with users able to experience Titanic in "real and condensed" time, move from one event to another, and "through their own actions affect the world around them, enriching the experience for everyone."

"We're not simply creating a place for someone to go," said James Cameron, director of the film Titanic and a member of the Multiverse Advisory Board. "We're creating a journey for them to go on that will both be exciting and educational."