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Free forum avatars according to some definitions, especially to those who are working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, is actually known as an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality. It is simply described with the term "visual chat", although it is said that free forum avatars have gone by a diversity of other names. Example of those related names of free forum avatars or visual chat are multimedia chat, GMUKS (Graphical Multi-User Konversations), and habitats. The term "habitat" is coined by an inventor named Randy Farmer, who invented those other related names.

Free forum avatars, or avatars in particular, are something that go between a MOO and a traditional chat room, and are considered one-of-a-kind because free forum avatars are graphical. This uniqueness of free forum avatars is made through the illusion of movement, space, and physicality, rather than the conventional dimension of most chat rooms that the users are limited to text-only communications.

Furthermore, with the use of free forum avatars, the users have the will to express their identity visually, rather than just through written information. With this visual dimension, a whole fresh sphere for self-expression and social dealings and interaction with characteristics such as subtlety and complexity, which is not evident in text-only chat rooms, came into being.