Teh Internets The Opposite of Lively
posted by on July 9 at 12:19 PM
Google just created a Second Life-like application called Lively. The burdensome tagline is: “Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design.” Just like Second Life, you pick an avatar like this one:
and build a room like, for example, this “Goth Room”:
And then you can, um, IM your friends, who also look like pigs or chickens or whatever. It does, at least, seem to be free at present.
Stephen’s Lighthouse also points out another small step for online avatars:
“Sometime earlier today an avatar was successfully teleported from a SecondLife Virtual World preview Grid onto an OpenSim world developed by IBM, marking the first incident of virtual space travel by a virtual life form.”
I really, really hope this doesn’t turn into web 3.0.
But can you make grotesque penis-creatures like you can in Spore?
If I can't rape anyone, I don't see what the point is.
I for one think that the future will increasingly be such things. Too bad they suck bandwidth like a ravenous pig, and we in the USA have near the bottom of all civilized first world nations in terms of available bandwidth per capita and per dollar.
So how is this different from Microsoft's Comic Chat? At least in Puzzle Pirates you can play games while you're chatting.
(Comic Chat info:
http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm )
Not much, JenK. It's like Barrens chat on WoW and in the trade channel - people like to sit around all dressed up and talk about the weather online.
No non-Windows clients...
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