Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Google Lively: the virtualization of the real

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
The Japanese tech age is here. The dreams are vitual. The ideas as well and the results as well. Here I can conceptualize the python program where to code one is difficult. The idea of being able to live ina world of desires with a meaning that resembles real defines the second world.

Lively: Google Launches Virtual World
While IBM and Linden Labs are cozying up to each other, Google has just released its own virtual world: Lively. Lively is available through a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is Windows only for now. Lively does not feature one coherent world like Second Life but splits worlds up into different rooms. Lively was originally developed as a 20% project my Niniane Wang.


Lively runs completely in the browser and you use your Google account to log in and create your own avatars. Within the world, you can interact with other users, very much like you would do in Second Life. You can also watch YouTube clips on virtual TVs and share your own photos.
Users can chose from a number of preset animations for their characters, ranging from shaking hands with others, to applauding, crying, etc. By double clicking on certain items in the virtual world, users can also often activate some preset animations such as sitting down on a chair or jumping off a dive board.






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