Starbright World

Tamiko Thiel, working under Worlds Inc., was the creative director,[2] and companies such as Sprint and Intel partnered with Starbright to provide the necessary equipment and infrastructure.

[4] Players accessed Starbright World through terminals connected to a private DS3 network that linked hospitals to one another.

[1][5] Spielberg and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (Starbright's chair of fundraising)[6] made cameos in the game as E.T.

An editor for the New York Times criticized Starbright World for being "slow and clumsy" and lacking interactive activities.

[5] Starbright World was relaunched in July 1998 as a social network including message boards, chat rooms, videoconferencing and games.

[9] Several clinical trials evaluated the effect of the social network on patients' symptoms and quality of life.