Lively by Google

Stu

I just read that Google will be using its 'Adsense' concept in Lively.
This means 'in game' advertising.

You find this surprising?

Google is an advertising company...period

Hey!!...how about 'in model' advertising?!!!...say, in V7, you open a tree component and this discreet little box opens up in the top corner with adds for 3D plants, 2D entourage....and well... lots of other vaguely related stuff.

How cool would that be!!!!

lewiswadsworth

I'd not just quit using SketchUp, but probably also pile ALL of my computers in a mound out back, spray them with lighter fluid, and toss on a lit match...that's how cool I think it would be.

Stinkie

I'm with LW on this one. Though I might just finally watch that Silo dvd I had UPS fetch me a couple of weeks ago. (I'm dreaming of a SU > Silo > SU workflow. High poly support! High poly support! Y'all think the Boulder mafia got the message by now? )

iichiversii

Lively is dead and so it deserves to be, it looked like crap and it played like crap, but the idea of having a virtual space would be great, I create alot of my models on the same theme but with such large files and so many of them it's virtually impossible to display them in a scene, if there were virtual space available imagine the possibilities, allowing others to vertically walk your virtually masterpieces and vice versa, it doesn't have to be a virtual social mmo, just a space to create a visualisation, being anything, leave out all this avatar crap which they messed this lively concept up with, virtual space should be something available to SU users for creating large scenes, more or less like a game engine with built in renders and so on but for SU users.