Lively by Google
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http://www.lively.com/ - "a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today."
more market for custom SKPs (furniture, buildings, ...) ?
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Ah, FINALLY! I can now sit in my regular Corner Bar (provided it is modelled) during office hours as well!
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Ah yes! I think we should start buying up properties right away while it is still cheap! Then make developments and sell out big times!
Say Let's create an SCF village/town!
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Unless I've totally misread it, it doesn't seem to be any real competition for 2nd Life. I didn't see any mention of currency and trading and such. It's basically a build-your-own chat room.
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Baby steps Alan. Remember the Ultimate Goal is world domination...
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@ross macintosh said:
Baby steps Alan. Remember the Ultimate Goal is world domination...
That's why I want to buy up everything NOW!
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Stupid music video with "Bratz"-type avatars:
[flash=425,344:24jerzfn]http://www.youtube.com/v/5YbwfOucET8&hl[/flash:24jerzfn]
So this is what SketchUp was destined for, all along? To be a content-producer for a virtual world of prepubescent, hydrocephalic twits with bad taste in electronic music? Time to call my stockbroker and tell him to dump my Google shares! Whatever happened to the Snowcrashbusiness-plan?
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Seems like the world of uber-geeks agrees with my previously-expressed sentiment concerning this new app:
Some of the posts are really funny:
Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World - Slashdot
I think something is wrong with my lively account.The first time I logged in, some funny looking feller who looked like Colonel Sanders greeted me, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the google. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which d...
(tech.slashdot.org)
Those of us who noticed the scrolling list of current Google queries on the wall in the Googleplex reception room will appreciate this one:
Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World - Slashdot
I got bored waiting for it to load, then it crashed ff3 so I gave up.There was an interesting loop in the waiting room though, displaying what I can only assume were search queries.One query in particular confirmed this....
(tech.slashdot.org)
But I think, all-in-all, the very first post really pronounces the damning judgement:
@unknownuser said:
The Shark...Has officially been jumped at Google.
What's next, a program to install animated smileys to your Outlook e-mails?
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@lewiswadsworth said:
Stupid music video with "Bratz"-type avatars:
So this is what SketchUp was destined for, all along? To be a content-producer for a virtual world of prepubescent, hydrocephalic twits with bad taste in electronic music? Time to call my stockbroker and tell him to dump my Google shares! Whatever happened to the Snowcrashbusiness-plan?
THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I was a afraid the world was running our of ways for Tween-age girls and get all "texty" and "What-EVAH" with eachother! Humnaity is saved! I have always wanted to Have an avatar that portrayed my inner Pouty Mange Speed Racer with Spikey hair persona.
on second thought. . .I wanna be one of those POKEMONs! -
@kwistenbiebel said:
[Starting the music]:Now let us all sing the 'Google song'....
. %(#FF0040)[Google! Google! Googl-i- Goo!
We'll own the World, so We'll own you!] Sorry, . .. that's the one they taught me in school. . .
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Now I have to go over the Boot Camp to see this ..... is it
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Dont bother Mike.....you, and a lot of us, have missed the targeted demographic by at least 30 years
Google.....youve done it again!!!
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Hey Stu .... speak for yourself ..... I'm still young at
heart ...... but that's about all ..... the rest is falling
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Where is the shoot myself in the head smilie?
It's a good thing obscenity isn't appreciated here, because I've got a whole string coming out here in my office.
As Lewis said, this is what Google intended for SU all along?!?!
I hesitate to ask if this could get any worse, but could it?
You guys may as well throw out your Layouts
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I've noticed a great many of the Google team looking at this thread.
Do you get the message, guys?
As I wrote in another thread, I think I will be jumping ship shortly for a real 3D modeler, now that SU has been relegated to being a toy for teeny-boppers. Way to go.
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this is heartbreaking. Years ago, before Google became the Wal-mart of Cyberspace, and there wre all of these other engines out there. . .Alta Vista, Excite, etc. I htought they were really cool and innovative. Then came the IPO which alas, I didn't get in on but that's beside the point. . .now the shareholders and and the board are pushing this thing and when they bought @Last I knew things were not going to go well for SU. I am totally d'accord with the Biebel--if SU isn't going to develop further go OpenSource (yeah. . like I know what I'm talking about
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I'm not so sure that the intention is not just a marketing model that the cigarette industry nailed down. That is hook your next target market group while their young.
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The funny thing is that EVERY ARCHITECT I know uses Sketchup Pro in some way in their workflow.
Isn't that proof enough that Sketchup has something 'special' the others just don't have?The number of users is still growing by the day....
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Guys,
Don't loose heart, let's see what V7 brings. I'm sure
we will all be pleasantly surprised
Mike
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This is called Lively, right....not SketchUp?
Methinks there is a degree of hyperbole and extrapolation going on here that isn't altogether healthy. What's Lively got to do with SU other than the fact that they both involve 3D?
The difference between Lively and Second Life is that it can be accessed from any browser, or even embedded in a website or blog...just like YouTube. It doesn't involve any installed software other than a small thingumajig to enable access. Any modelling or 3D editing is done online without the stuff ever leaving the server. How does this relate to SU?
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