Google launches virtual experience web-site

**PorkChopSandwiches** · 07-09-2008, 03:51 PM

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html

(Reuters) - Google Inc on Tuesday launched a three-dimensional virtual experience website to match popular virtual world Second Life.

The service, called "Lively," uses real-time virtual world characters known as avatars and three-dimensional graphics to congregate in virtual rooms.

Linden Lab's Second Life, launched five years ago, was the first online community with its own currency and a growing economy and avatars.

"If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favourite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator's interests, just by looking at the furniture and environment they chose," Niniane Wang, engineering manager, who oversaw Lively's creation, said on Google's official blog.

Lively also allows for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside the rooms, Wang said.

Google worked closely with Arizona State University, while developing the website. (Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore)

**Harpoon** · 07-09-2008, 04:19 PM

One step closer to the Borg...

**PorkChopSandwiches** · 07-09-2008, 04:25 PM

I all ready have a fiber connection from google into the back of my brain stem

07-09-2008, 03:51 PM	#1
PorkChopSandwiches Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Online Posts: 52,003 Thanks: 6 Thanked 442 Times in 180 Posts	Google launches virtual experience web-site http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html (Reuters) - Google Inc on Tuesday launched a three-dimensional virtual experience website to match popular virtual world Second Life. The service, called "Lively," uses real-time virtual world characters known as avatars and three-dimensional graphics to congregate in virtual rooms. Linden Lab's Second Life, launched five years ago, was the first online community with its own currency and a growing economy and avatars. "If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favourite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator's interests, just by looking at the furniture and environment they chose," Niniane Wang, engineering manager, who oversaw Lively's creation, said on Google's official blog. Lively also allows for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside the rooms, Wang said. Google worked closely with Arizona State University, while developing the website. (Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore) __________________ A Teabelly Original

07-09-2008, 04:19 PM	#2
Harpoon Sailing the seas of Cheese Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Down by the river Posts: 36,485 Thanks: 46 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	One step closer to the Borg... __________________ .

07-09-2008, 04:25 PM	#3
PorkChopSandwiches Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Online Posts: 52,003 Thanks: 6 Thanked 442 Times in 180 Posts	I all ready have a fiber connection from google into the back of my brain stem __________________ A Teabelly Original

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