At Wednesday’s Game Developers Conference, Sony unveiled Home, an immersive 3D social space created exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Phil Harrison, Sony Computer Entertainment's president of worldwide studios, gave a keynote regarding Home, which is essentially a 3D, avatar-based social environment available to users of the PlayStation 3 network. Home will be available as a public free download this fall, after the large-scale beta in April. Home participants will be able to meet other members, most likely in a main public area known as the "Central Lobby," and communicate through text, audio or video chatting. They will also be able to pipe in, either in public or private theatres, the latest movies or TV shows available through the PS3 network, as well as their own user-created videos. Users will be able to customize their avatars and their small private spaces.
Compared to Second Life, Home appears to be a much more controlled space as Sony will moderate anything meant for public spaces, most likely to ensure that the service remains a family friendly space. But maintaining such control over content creation means devoting large amounts of time and manpower to the vetting process, and that can translate to a significant delay in the approval of content, as well as minimized user creativity. Harrison emphasized the despite some obvious similarities, Home is not a Second Life knockoff: "We've been working on Home for about two-and-a-half years. So we're absolutely aware of other avatar-based (environments), but we're taking a different approach." Although Harisson refused to specify, he said users would be able to create some forms of their own content, they would be able to conduct transactions in exchange for some form of payment and, of course, purchase in-world goods, in-world advertising (Home allows for high-quality, realistic advertising) and business-to-business services like sponsorship opportunities.
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Compared to Second Life, Home appears to be a much more controlled space as Sony will moderate anything meant for public spaces, most likely to ensure that the service remains a family friendly space. But maintaining such control over content creation means devoting large amounts of time and manpower to the vetting process, and that can translate to a significant delay in the approval of content, as well as minimized user creativity. Harrison emphasized the despite some obvious similarities, Home is not a Second Life knockoff: "We've been working on Home for about two-and-a-half years. So we're absolutely aware of other avatar-based (environments), but we're taking a different approach." Although Harisson refused to specify, he said users would be able to create some forms of their own content, they would be able to conduct transactions in exchange for some form of payment and, of course, purchase in-world goods, in-world advertising (Home allows for high-quality, realistic advertising) and business-to-business services like sponsorship opportunities.
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Not to mention, the advertising in home will help Sony pay for the free-ness of the server. Great Job Sony.
MS is a multi billion dollar company... they have had so many years to fix XBL and make it fast and usable... BUT!!!!! using a menu based option makes the whole system slow as it is...
This option is good ajnd i think its amazing (SIms online anyone?) tho when u think abpout it.... u put 5 of ur friends in your House... and all watch a movie... lets say 600MB for it... what if over 1,000 also do this... Microsoft have toruble supporting its menu based system when a new download that everyone wants comes out... will sony be able to maintain+ support all this happening World wide? When i see this working like that preview did... then ill commend them..
They all turn on. They all have controllers. They all play on TVs. I could go on, but I think my point here is that they're all GAME CONSOLES. They're only giving us what we asked for, what're you complaining about?
Jeeze...
They all turn on. They all have controllers. They all play on TVs. I could go on, but I think my point here is that they're all GAME CONSOLES. They're only giving us what we asked for, what're you complaining about?
Jeeze...
You appear to have some anger issues.
They all turn on. They all have controllers. They all play on TVs. I could go on, but I think my point here is that they're all GAME CONSOLES. They're only giving us what we asked for, what're you complaining about?
Jeeze...
You appear to have some anger issues.
This is true.
Really though, I just can't stand small idiotic posts from people that sit back and think,"I'm so clever" when the real fact is that they're just a simple outright troll. Go ahead, hate Sony, I don't care, but at least have something to back your statement other than "they're copycats."
Every product is a copy of something else. I mean, so many brand names make so many similar things. Do I hate Acer for making monitors that may look like other monitors? AMD for making processors? Kroger's for making Kroger brand food products? No. I could go on, but I'm pretty sure you get my point. It's simple beneficial competition.
They all turn on. They all have controllers. They all play on TVs. I could go on, but I think my point here is that they're all GAME CONSOLES. They're only giving us what we asked for, what're you complaining about?
Jeeze...
You appear to have some anger issues.
This is true.
Really though, I just can't stand small idiotic posts from people that sit back and think,"I'm so clever" when the real fact is that they're just a simple outright troll. Go ahead, hate Sony, I don't care, but at least have something to back your statement other than "they're copycats."
Every product is a copy of something else. I mean, so many brand names make so many similar things. Do I hate Acer for making monitors that may look like other monitors? AMD for making processors? Kroger's for making Kroger brand food products? No. I could go on, but I'm pretty sure you get my point. It's simple beneficial competition.
Denial is futile.
The Last thing kids need is to socialize over cyber space.
This is getting too far
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