Towns
Gaia Towns (often simply called Towns) is a virtual world where avatars may move and interact with each other. While in Towns users can pick up various items. Bugs, litter, and flowers can be collected while in towns, these items can later be made into other items for a small cost. Shaking trees, rocks, and shrubs can yield small amounts of gold to be collected.. Users may use a virtual chat system while in the towns. Homes can be found throughout Towns and more than one user can visit someone else's home. The towns often host events such as snowball fights and trick-or-treating.
Sponsored Worlds
Recently, Gaia has been implementing virtual worlds, similar to Towns, for various site sponsors. These have included a rainbow-styled world for a Skittles sponsor, a castle for an Alice in Wonderland film promotion, a large forest tree for the Legend of the Guardians film, among many others. Users can interact with certain NPCs in these areas, and are often awarded prizes for visiting these areas.
Cinemas
Gaia Cinemas was released in April 2007, and allows users to sit in a virtual theater, and watch anime, education shorts, TV shows, cartoons, etc. with other users. Users have the ability to throw temporary virtual items such as tomatoes, fireballs, popcorn, as well as other things during a cinema session. Programs shown in Gaia Cinemas are anime or cartoons shown with permission from Gaia Online's sponsors, films in the public domain, or films made by Gaia or by users. Gaia has old classic films as well as new anime in their theaters like Suzuka and Moon Phase. In 2007, Gaia has created its own 3-D animated films, under the title of MMVII, that correlate with the Gaia storyline. Quest movies also take place in cinemas, when a user finishes watching a trailer for a movie they may receive a quest item. Gaia VJ is where users can make a virtual living room cinema with playlists composed of videos from video-hosting sites such as YouTube. In a recent announcement, Gaia announced a partnership with Sony and Time Warner, allowing Gaia to screen films from their libraries, either for free, a one time gold fee, or a Gaia Cash rental fee. New films are released in Gaia Cinemas every Monday.[23] Due to lack of interest and inactivity, Gaia Cinemas no longer open to users for regular viewings, and is now only used to display film trailers, game trailers, and advertisements from site sponsors. Users are often awarded with sponsor-themed items from viewing the trailer or advertisement.
Gaia Towns (often simply called Towns) is a virtual world where avatars may move and interact with each other. While in Towns users can pick up various items. Bugs, litter, and flowers can be collected while in towns, these items can later be made into other items for a small cost. Shaking trees, rocks, and shrubs can yield small amounts of gold to be collected.. Users may use a virtual chat system while in the towns. Homes can be found throughout Towns and more than one user can visit someone else's home. The towns often host events such as snowball fights and trick-or-treating.
Sponsored Worlds
Recently, Gaia has been implementing virtual worlds, similar to Towns, for various site sponsors. These have included a rainbow-styled world for a Skittles sponsor, a castle for an Alice in Wonderland film promotion, a large forest tree for the Legend of the Guardians film, among many others. Users can interact with certain NPCs in these areas, and are often awarded prizes for visiting these areas.
Cinemas
Gaia Cinemas was released in April 2007, and allows users to sit in a virtual theater, and watch anime, education shorts, TV shows, cartoons, etc. with other users. Users have the ability to throw temporary virtual items such as tomatoes, fireballs, popcorn, as well as other things during a cinema session. Programs shown in Gaia Cinemas are anime or cartoons shown with permission from Gaia Online's sponsors, films in the public domain, or films made by Gaia or by users. Gaia has old classic films as well as new anime in their theaters like Suzuka and Moon Phase. In 2007, Gaia has created its own 3-D animated films, under the title of MMVII, that correlate with the Gaia storyline. Quest movies also take place in cinemas, when a user finishes watching a trailer for a movie they may receive a quest item. Gaia VJ is where users can make a virtual living room cinema with playlists composed of videos from video-hosting sites such as YouTube. In a recent announcement, Gaia announced a partnership with Sony and Time Warner, allowing Gaia to screen films from their libraries, either for free, a one time gold fee, or a Gaia Cash rental fee. New films are released in Gaia Cinemas every Monday.[23] Due to lack of interest and inactivity, Gaia Cinemas no longer open to users for regular viewings, and is now only used to display film trailers, game trailers, and advertisements from site sponsors. Users are often awarded with sponsor-themed items from viewing the trailer or advertisement.
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