Out of the blue, Google has announced a new 3D virtual world called 'Google Lively'. The world is similar to Second Life, or the upcoming 'Home' for PS3.Users can create their own 3D "rooms," and deck them out with furniture and other accoutrements, in addition to being able to add themed music to complete your personalized virtual space in Google Lively. Users will be able to visit others' rooms, leave items for other Google Lively netizens as well as being able to stream photos and video.
"Based on feedback from ASU [Arizona State University] students and with help from the Google Desktop team, we added support for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside our rooms. Better yet, the gadgets you have in your Lively rooms can also run on your desktop."
- Niniane Wang, engineering manager.
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.
As of now, Google Lively only runs on PC's running Windows XP or Windows Vista, with a special browser plugin that uses Emergent's Gamebryo engine.
Niniane Wang also added that upcoming support for Mac OS X is a high priority.
Source: TechRadar View: Google Lively
So, in other words - its nothing like Second Life. However, sounds very very similar to Playstation Home (except for the whole trophy thing).
If you're running XP64, forget it. If you're not, still forget it as odds are you'll get the same problem a LOT of other are getting, and find yourself unable to join any rooms...
Way to go, Google. (Y) Nice launch, chaps.
Last edited by Persephone on 09 Jul 2008 - 19:48
Who says it doesn't support 64-bit or Vista? It loads perfectly fine on my Vista Ultimate 64 machine in Firefox 3, although takes an age to "materialize" the room.
Come one everyone, install, and help Google learn even more about you!
Isn't he the same fellow that couldn't figure out how to lock his iMac or some such? Does he have a list of reasons for 'hating' Apple as well? Just curious...
The whole concept of 'hating' a company for the intangible objects they create, that no one forces you to use, buy or access, is just lost on me, I guess.
The whole concept of 'hating' a company for the intangible objects they create, that no one forces you to use, buy or access, is just lost on me, I guess.
Sigh... Yup.
I will say that it runs much better than Second Life. And it seems to run better in IE than Firefox 3 for me.
Interesting concept.
anyway it's good.
google MMO
are they going to try to take on Blizzard now?
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 7/9/2008 5:22:58 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description:
Faulting application client.exe, version 1.0.1907.1850, time stamp 0x4872cbaa, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0x80000001, fault offset 0x073ccf55, process id 0x16a4, application start time 0x01c8e223174c3180.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
With BETA stickers that you can plaster all over your walls to spruce the place up a little.
A virtual world for kids that's existed for upwards of 5 years...
So way to go Google. Great "innovation" there
A virtual world for kids that's existed for upwards of 5 years...
So way to go Google. Great "innovation" there
but i bet that the pool is open
I certainly hope my company's cool enough to let me play with stuff 20% of my working time
I retract :currently is full of freaks.
Last edited by Magallanes on 11 Jul 2008 - 12:06
There Are *NO* Freaks on The Internet dude where did you get your infos?
Are you a dude by the way ?
j/k j/k
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