Blaxxun Interactive, originally named "Black Sun Interactive", was one of the first companies to develop a 3D community platform designed for the Internet using VRML[1] and highly scalable multi-user server environments.

Blaxxun was founded in August 1995 with its sales/marketing offices in San Francisco, CA and management/development in Munich, Germany.

[citation needed] In 2000, Blaxxun was scheduled for an IPO[3] at Germany's Neuer Markt.

The IPO was delayed and finally failed[4] in August 2000, when the Internet boom turned into the dot-com bubble.

[5] In 2001, blaxxun became shortly profitable and succeeded in raising more funding, but then was also hit by collapsing Internet revenues.