Microsoft V-Chat

{{Short description|Freeware 3D chat program}}

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Image:Vchat.PNGMicrosoft 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.{{Cite web|url=http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/microsoft-releases-beta-v-chat|title=Microsoft releases beta of V-Chat|website=windowsitpro.com|access-date=2016-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082910/http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/microsoft-releases-beta-v-chat|archive-date=2016-12-22|url-status=dead}}

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|date=December 2008}}