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- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I would be interested to see this. However, I find this fairly un-google.
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Who actually uses secondlife?"
Abused housewives, disabled people, and Lego fanatics. - Caiman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Google are the next big evil empire. It's true. Lock up your children!
- azAZ09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ Tunguska
I think the phrase you were blindly reaching for was "I, for one, welcome our Google overlords"
If your going to keep breathing life into a dying meme, you have to use the right words - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5google would never charge!
- ThunderIT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't think it will be designed to be a game like second life, but to facilitate the other things that people have been using second life for. IE having virtual meetings, press conferences, and virtual retail. Imagine being able to shop around in the biggest Futureshop/BestBuy ever, walking down the isles, and actually looking at, and/or interacting with the products in the virtual store, before you make your realworld purchase
- Funny192, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5In future news -
Google has taken the lead from the Second Life Project.
Second Life is now dubbed "Netscaped" - coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd rather have Google's nice compact text ads than those super colorful, animated, annoying ads and pop-ups.
- LesPaul75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If Google wants to make some sort of Metaverse thing, why would they base it on Google Earth? I think the idea of a virtual world is to escape the real one.
- wiremonkeymommy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4if true, a real competitor to SL, cool, I have no doubt they could load balance a sim.... *hint hint LL
- uberdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4it was pretty obvious that they were going to turn gearth into a virtual mall
- thesmartpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A lot of people say that, but it doesn't make sense.
If I'm buying something online I usually know what I'm looking for. Or at least the general category of item. A big draw of online sales is NOT having to walk into a store, walk down isles, and waste time seeing things you don't care about. I love being able to type in an item in the search bar, skim the details page, press buy, and then purchase it.
Sure you could say "But I would get to see it in 3D!". Then why not just have that feature on the details page, as many other websites do.
PLUS the idea of a virtual mall has been hopping around forever. And has yet to take off. - ngonzales80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I pray that this is true. This could be so huge. I tried Second Life for the first time recently. I've got to say, it sucks. The idea is cool but the creators are thinking too small. Actually they don't really think at all. They let the users do that. If Google does this, people will be saying Second who?
I don't think they would make it subscription based. That's not Google's style. The entire world would be theirs to advertise in.
As far as Google being an evil empire, we'll see. So far they're doing pretty good. Yes, they're making money hand over fist but congratulations to them for that. I don't pay a dime for any of their services. Plus they've got that deal with NASA going on too. I think it's Google Universe or something. There's an example of a good deed without any obvious reward (other than free publicity).
Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'm a big Google fan. I also own their stock and I'm hoping for a strong earnings announcement on Monday. Here's looking at $550 or $600 a share. - darkbird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I atleast hope that this one will be free and not require micropayments every step of the way (seriously, what is up with this micropayment trend?)
- wordfan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I just wish they would update their maps.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How is this possible again? Maybe I"m dumb but I can't understand how Google will virtualise real-life cities, 10 times bigger than SL's world each
- azAZ09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are broader changes taking place with SL type virtual worlds and their Mmorpg cousins.
Early operating systems (Dos / Unix / CLI-type) were ugly and one dimensional, replaced by slightly more attractive mostly two dimensional GUI-Types (Xerox/Mac/Windows). The current widely used versions (OSX, XP, Gnu/linux etc.) are slightly more three dimensional, and the new releases like Vista are
a bit more three dimensional still. Each represents a graphic workspace with increase in depth and visual appeal.
Browsers and web-spaces followed the same trend somewhat. Tabbed browsing is just another method of giving a multi-layered visual organization to the page.
If you owned a massive Internet based search monopoly wouldn't you want all users to be using the Internet more than any other applications? Instead of the desktop outside of the browser frame you want them to use the desktop you create within the browser frame. What would you need to do away with the OS altogether? You would need to start with a web-based suite of office applications...(look at the Google products page). Maybe a way to transact business ...
In Second Life all of the objects in the inventory, can contain scripts. You can have several applications attached to you avatar that appear on your screen as a transparent HUD. Within the SL grid you can currently play videos, hear Internet radio, IM, E-mail, receive VOIP, buy/sell things--all the stuff you can do on the web. You can contain applications documents images and 3-d creations in your avatar's inventory. You can teleport your avatar from place to place if you get bored of walking or flying just as easily as following a hyperlink on the web. It is slightly more three dimensional, and it gives the creations a context.
Now, imagine the browser / web-based operating system of the future, where the information is stored on the Internet instead of your computer in a more three dimensional format. Running Google client software to browse the Google'verse or GoogleWeb.
I think SL is getting all of this attention because a few forward thinking people are looking at it as an architects model of a variation of the future development of the web.
SL may not have been Netscaped, but I think maybe they are about to be YouTubed.
/speculation
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3From TFA: "The only missing pieces are avatars and a functioning economy."
*cough* - While I’m neither a second Life fan nor a Google basher, I think it would take a *lo*t more than that. Second Life has a kind of fat 3D gaming engine under its hood, with everything from collision detection to physics. You cannot put avatars on Google Earth (which is basically a 3D projected map with lots of links) and pretend you now are running a virtual world.
Both are great products, but I see little they could or should have in common. - medeshago, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's already being virtualized, just take a look at the cities with 3d models.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3future of society =
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd rather see better res images and more 3-d buildings before some metaverse..
- jsimonson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Google could make a ton of money with a subscription based game. A simple link on their homepage advertising their game and charge maybe 8 bucks a month fee with a 2 month free trial to get people hooked, and they'd make an unfathomable amount of money. Which of course they need, since google is such a poor little start up. :(
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"a slow, ugly, chunky, ugly, boring, waste of time"
I honestly do not understand why people constantly make disparaging remarks toward SecondLife and Linden Lab. What other metaverse is as flexible as that of SL?
Narrow-minded people. The same individuals that would have scoffed at the idea of purchasing goods over the internet.
"Ugh! Why would people want to sit in front of a computer screen and buy things online when they could just go to the store!"
Idiots. - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hiro is not impressed.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Who actually uses secondlife?
- idigital, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Why is there all this constant hype about Second Life when it's a slow, ugly, chunky, ugly, boring, waste of time?
The thing looks like it's stuck with old technology and populated by clueless idiots. Online sex in second life? It's not the least bit sexy.
Sorry I just had to get that out of my system.
I doubt Google would get into this arena, but if they did we might finally see a shared virtual world (outside of mmorpg) that is worth all the hype.
Second life. Ptooie. - Nok1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh wow, in the name of Ford...err Google
2010 will be also known as 0 GGL, or 0 Years After the Great Google Take Over, GGL standing for GooGLe - returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dateline does investigations on Internet predators all the time. What's your point?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great, now google will be overrun with anime nerds cybering other anime nerds with simulated sex action and posting porn all over building walls!
- tlehman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Google is our dear and glorious leader.
- Wawert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is retarded. Second Life is probably best known by many as an online sex world. Google would barely make any income at all compared to its advertising profits and would be at risk of a Dateline or other various tv show investigation. The negative stigma of that could affect Google for years.
- Tunguska, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I stand hopelessly corrected. Kent Brockman, right?
- godfrey56, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0hey don't forget the chance for businesses to brand build and market to users of this metaverse. Google's gotta make it's money somehow. More info at http://www.virtualworldsforum.com
- idigital, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I heard all of the hype, I tried out Second Life, and honestly I couldn't believe just how primitive and out of date the 3D technology it uses is.
People make disparaging remarks because the thing is just so damn ugly. There you go. - rense, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1SL is BS, skip decoys.
- mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0[[I tried Second Life for the first time recently. I've got to say, it sucks. The idea is cool but the creators are thinking too small.]]
the only gripe i have about secondlife is the way they've architected it. it obviously doesn't scale well, as the frequent lag problems attest. if they could just fix that, i would sing their praises.
[[As far as Google being an evil empire, we'll see.]]
google's an empire, all right, but not an evil one. they provide a lot of good software free of charge. - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i'd prefer not to step into any bestbuy, virtual or otherwise
- Tunguska, on 10/13/2007, -12/+9I for one welcome Google as our supreme rulers.
- KraigR, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1gearth was much better back when it was keyhole im afraid to say......this is one of the few things google messed up on unfortunately
- russellnation, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2that would be cool*googol^2
- biznickman, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3That makes a lot of sense. The only problem I have is, how dispersed can Google get?
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