Lively feels more like a Google Talk-powered chat room with 3-D camera controls than an immersive environment like Second Life.
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on Tuesday launched a Web-based virtual world called Lively as a way to make the social Web more dynamic.
"The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the Web," said Google engineering manager Niniane Wang in a blog post. "We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the Web."
Lively feels more like a Google Talk-powered chat room with 3-D camera controls than an immersive environment like Second Life. In part that's a function of the small in-browser window that presents Lively's various rooms -- full screen graphics are inevitably more compelling
July 09 2008 04:43 pm | General