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21 Jan 09
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Google’s platform will run in a browser, differentiating it from client-centric worlds like Second Life and can be embedded in a Web site.
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Google’s launch of a virtual world, on the heels of today’s posting of positive economic data for Second Life, may put a sudden twist to the future outlook for SL. It won’t compete with the rich user-generated content of Second Life, but it will compete for the attention of a wider user base.
CNET outlines the platform and sees it primarily as social:
With Lively, you can set up you own online spaces–rooms, grassy meadows, desert islands, or, in the demo version I tried, simulated Silicon Valley office parks. You can change the clothing or form of your avatar (that’s your online incarnation, for those of you who missed the Second Life hype). And of course you can chat, do backflips, shake hands, and give high-fives. -
A few other differences from Second Life: Lively doesn’t have money. It’s designed to be easier to use, with a drag-and-drop interface. And it’s not programmable, at least yet, so you can only select furniture, clothes, hairstyles, and such from the prefabricated catalog Google supplies.
Money and programmability are both items the company is seriously considering, though, Yang said. A Mac OS X client also is a high priority, she added.
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The application is definitely not without early glitches, however, including rooms that reach capacity at 20 avatars (although you can still enter, you’re just not embodied) and a tendency to, well, crash. Having experienced them myself, on a fairly high end machine, there might be more to the following statement on CNET:
“I had a number of burps and hiccups using Lively in my demo on a somewhat elderly but by no means ancient laptop, problems Wang said weren’t widespread.”
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09 Jul 08
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A few other differences from Second Life: Lively doesn’t have money. It’s designed to be easier to use, with a drag-and-drop interface. And it’s not programmable, at least yet, so you can only select furniture, clothes, hairstyles, and such from the prefabricated catalog Google supplies.
Money and programmability are both items the company is seriously considering, though, Yang said.
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Avatars of different types are offered including furrys and child avatars.
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On 07.08.08 Brandon Catteneo said:
No user generated content? No 3D building tools? No scripts? No competition.
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