Comments on: Google’s Lively Virtual World

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:01:00 +0000

And now it’s dead!

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:51:40 +0000

Reminds of the good ol free MSN chat days with “rooms” about interracial, bored wives, latino, etc popping up on the front page because they added !!!!!!!!!!! in front of their name. Oh right, they were horrible HORRIBLE days, not good ones.

By: Gnarf

Gnarf — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:29:57 +0000

Apparently one of the rooms is a “hot sex island”.

By: drew

drew — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:47:27 +0000

Google Bob?

By: K

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:45:56 +0000

Ahhh, could be interesting, thanks.

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:30:07 +0000

K, I think what you want is http://metaplace.com/

By: James Brophy

James Brophy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:09:05 +0000

It’s excellent. Once it’s loaded it’s apparent that this is not meant for gaming by using your avatar. The levels are too small and the click and drag controls, While excellent for talking are completely unsuitable for games.

the ability to nest the same room on many websites is an excellent way for multiple groups who share interests to use the same space. Like traditional IRC but far more accessible to the technology noob.

RPS should get one. Maybe one with the updates from the rps steam community on the walls?

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:51:46 +0000

If they manage to integrate it with other Google tools it could be pretty cool, but if it’s just Second Life by another name then meh.

By: K

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:36:36 +0000

I’ll be interested to see where Google go with it, if anywhere. We could have developer tools released allowing people to create a kind of game engine within the online environment. So, say you want to play an online FPS, you pull out your gun and can run around the virtual world shooting other people who did the same. Want to race online? Magic up your superbike into the world and exploit the racing engine that was made. Like the virtual world of Snow Crash, or something.

By: yns88

yns88 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:28:36 +0000

I would try it out, but apparently Lively is not “ready” for Linux yet.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:30:17 +0000

Google Home ?

By: Andrew Wills

Andrew Wills — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:59:49 +0000

I’m just rather confused by the whole thing. The interface feels incomplete (I know, it’s beta!). I guess I’m just spoiled by FPS games and their intuitive interfaces, but I had a really hard time trying to get the camera to point the right way, and to understand how my avatar moves.