Google Lively - A New World
 

Out of the blue, Google has announced a new 3D virtual world called 'Google Lively'. The world is similar to Second Life, or the upcoming 'Home' for PS3.

Users can create their own 3D "rooms," and deck them out with furniture and other accoutrements, in addition to being able to add themed music to complete your personalized virtual space in Google Lively. Users will be able to visit others' rooms, leave items for other Google Lively netizens as well as being able to stream photos and video.

"Based on feedback from ASU [Arizona State University] students and with help from the Google Desktop team, we added support for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside our rooms. Better yet, the gadgets you have in your Lively rooms can also run on your desktop."
- Niniane Wang, engineering manager.

More info: http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum...new-world.html

So what do you recon? Good idea? Bad? Let us know!

-- Jason

Not a great launch. It's taken me 5minutes to render a room so far...

Edit: 10minutes... I give up. It's not as if i'm using shoddy hardware here either.

Yup, it does take quite a while to load. However, it is clearly labeled as 'beta', so I'm sure they'll work on that. Just report it to them, but I would suspect it has already been reported.

Yay! another way to waste my working hours :D

It doesn't support MAC's haha

Uninstalled. I don't care whether it's beta or not. Don't launch something that can't even run on a pretty standard XP installation in firefox.

Fine!

I read about it on webware yesterday
it looks like a bad version of 2nd life, which is pretty bad to begin with!

I'm getting old, I thought it was a copy of Gaia

Looks just like the rest of those types of games.. what a waste of code.

*posts for account last login date update*