Xenki: An “In Your Browser Viewer” for OpenSim and Second life (7)
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The story of Xenki, an in your browser viewer for OpenSim and Second Life (you can download the source on Forge.OpenSimulator), began with a stream of tweets from Dr_Manhattan (Kyle Gomboy, avatar G2 Proto) - power house of the Microsoft Developer Community in OpenSim (see Project Manhattan), and Second Life (see here) - announcing the merging of DirectX and WPF in the .NET 3.51 SP1 release. I was not the only one to notice these ...
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dani said:
And the story goes on. It's dejavu all over again, people building viewers for virtual words - just like the times people were doing that for the real world - when internet was young. History repeats itself and I'm as enthusiastic about it as I can be :P
Vivaty Design Studio Invites Developers to Create Virtual Products (2)
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Vivaty, the recently launched virtual scenes environment that works on AIM and Facebook as an integrated application, is opening up its platform, extending more custom options to developers and users. This is occurring more quickly than we typically see with other similar virtual environments, as Vivaty just launched a few weeks ago, but the competition is getting pretty steep for Web-based virtual worlds and increased user interaction will help Vivaty attract users on a widened ...
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Niko said:
Competition in browser-based virtual environments heating up?
Video: Philip Rosedale on Web Worlds vs. Second Life and Web Integration (1)
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Second Life has actually made strides recently towards integrating with the rest of the Web, but Linden Lab Founder and Chairman Philip Rosedale doesn't talk about them with TechCrunch when asked about integrating with the rest of the Web. The...
Vator.tv is Startup Heaven (1)
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I recently stumbled across Vator.tv, which is essentially a social network for startups. The tag line here is “What’s your pitch?” The twists are that Vator really does focus on the network aspect, it’s a place to legitimately announce and share news, and you’re encouraged to upload homestyle video. There are layers of participation, and it’s hopping with great ideas and talent. A lot of up-and-comers are on here like Zivity, EveryZing, Vivaty, Xoopit and ...
Are 3D Worlds Useful Yet? (2)
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The past few weeks have seen the release of Google Lively and Electric Sheep Company’s WebFlock. 3D environments have been around for years, with the initial attempts using VRML, an HTML like markup language. VRML was an interesting idea but had problems because the computers and typical network speeds for users made the environments too slow to be usable. Now, cable modems and dual-core processors remove the speed problems, but we have not seen many ...
またまたブラウザベースのバーチャルワールドが誕生 − Electric Sheep CompanyがWebFlockを発表 (2)
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Sibley VerbeckがSecond Lifeを通り過ぎて新たな挑戦を始めた。 Electric Sheep CompanyのCEOを務める同氏は、「CBS」「Showtime」「Intel」などの大手ブランド向けのSecond Life用の仮想の「島（アイランド）」の製作で多くの収益を得てきた。そして今彼は、そんなWeb上の バーチャルワールド（ 仮想世界 ）を通常のブラウザに導入しようとしている。本日彼は、Flashをベースにした3次元バーチャルワールド「WebFlock」のサービスをソフトウエアホスティングサービスとして提供する事を発表した。 WebFlockの世界は、 独自のソフトウエアのダウンロードの必要なSecond Lifeのようなバーチャルワールドを必要とせずに、バーチャルワールドに存在感を示したい大手ブランド向けの自社ブランド専用のバーチャル環境だ。現在迄に、今年だけでも$345M(3億4500万ドル) がバーチャルワールド系のスタートアップに投資されているが、そういったベンチャー企業がバーチャルワールドをブラウザに導入しようとしているトレンドが見て取れる。例えば最近公開されたスタートアップの「Vivaty」は完全なブラウザベースだ、また Google もも独自のブラウザベースのバーチャル環境「Lively」のテスト中だ。 しかし、これらのバーチャルワールドはどれもFlashベースでは無い。上記のバーチャルワールドは、ActiveXを利用しているためWindowsのマシンでのみ稼働する。WebFlockのバーチャルワールドは、Flashをサポートする全てのブラウザで利用可能だ（事実上ほぼ全てのブラウザで利用可能）。同ワールドは「3Dアバター」「チャット」「バーチャルマネー」「ゲーム」及び「YouTubeなどからのビデオや画像の埋め込み」などの機能に対応している。 VerbeckはWebFlockのサービスを、同氏がSecond Life向けの「島（アイランド）」を制作した大手ブランドなどと同じ種類の顧客向けにホスティングサービスとして提供している。例えばこのサービスの顧客第一号は、既にSecond Lifeでも有数の規模の「島（製作: Electric Sheep）」を所有するShowtimeの「The L-Word」だ。同じ様なバーチャル環境を通常のブラウザ向けに作る事で、Showtimeはより多くの観客をバーチャルワールドに呼び込めると考えている。 Verbeckは、Electric Sheepが他のバーチャルワールド環境向けに使っていた「Aspen」と呼ばれる技術を使用しており、今回それをブラウザベース用のバーチャルワールドに使用している。同氏はこれらの3Dワールドが、 個別の存在として異なったWebサイトに埋め込まれると予想している。そういった個別の世界を繋ぐ事が出来たらなお面白い事になるだろう。 WebFlockは価格的にそれほど安いサービスでは無い。「3D空間」「アバター」「基本機能」が含まれる「基本実装」のみでも12ヶ月で「＄10万ドル以下」となっている。同氏は、完全にSecond Life関連の事業を放棄したわけでは無いが、今回の彼の新しい事業への重視は、Web世界から完全に独立した（あるいは、限定的接続された）バーチャルワールドの兆候を彼が認識してると示している。 [原文へ] （翻訳：E.Kato） タグ: electric-sheep-company, SecondLife, Vivaty 【関連記事】 このクリスマス、Electric Sheep社員の3分の1は「電気羊の夢」を見られない 中国のSecondLife、HiPiHi、一般公開始まる Vivatyがブラウザ上での3Dを実現。まずはAIMとFacebookから SL WindLightでセカンドライフの雲、水、夕日がいきなりリアルに Second Life上での著作権侵害、法廷へ
More Browser-Based Virtual Worlds: The Electric Sheep Company Releases WebFlock (30)
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Sibley Verbeck is moving past Second Life. The CEO of the Electric Sheep Company has made a lot of money creating virtual islands in Second Life for big brands such as CBS, Showtime, and Intel. But now he is ready to bring those virtual worlds to the Web in regular browsers. Today, he is releasing WebFlock, a Flash-based 3-D virtual world application he is offering as a hosted software service. WebFlock worlds are private-label virtual ...
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Ben said:
Notice the price tag - "Under $100,000 per year" !!!
다시 뜨거워지는 Virtual Worlds (1)
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며칠전 Vivaty라는 facebook apps형의 Virtual Worlds(이하, VW)를 접하고 괜찮다는 생각을 했었는데요. flickr나 facebook 정보들을 심어서 내 공간을 꾸미는 개념이어서 유저 접근성이 좋아진 셈입니다.그리고 바로 어제 Google이 어쩜 구글스럽지 않다라고까지 평을 받는 Lively라는 VW를 오픈했습니다. 자신의 블로그에 룸을 embed할 수 있게 되고, 세컨드라이프처럼 브랜딩을 위한 마켓플레이스가 될거라는 전망이 나오고 있습니다.찾아보니 2008년 상반기에만 37건의 VW 투자 딜이 있었다고 합니다. 총 $345 million(3,500억) 정도 규모에 달한다고 하네요. Intel, HP, IBM, Sequoia Capital, SK Telecom, Docomo, Time Warner 등 ...
Google’s Lively (1)
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So at this point, I imagine everyone has seen the news about Google finally decloaking off the virtual bow with Lively. The coverage showed up in both the gaming press, where Google shared a bunch of tidbits that seemed to indicate a PR outreach to the gaming community, and also of course in the tech press, where commenters seemed overall less than impressed, questioning how Lively relates to Google’s avowed purpose of “organizing the world’s ...
IBM And Second Life Announce Interoperability, But Bridging Virtual Worlds Is the Wrong Answer (1)
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Virtual worlds like Second Life have a silo issue—they are virtual worlds unto themselves. Today, Linden Lab (which operates Second Life) and IBM announced that they have successfully bridged two virtual worlds, with avatars from Second Life successfully “teleporting” to an entirely different metaverse based on an OpenSim server. The two companies have been working together on the Open Grid Protocol to allow for interoperability between virtual worlds. In a post on the Second Life ...
Is this the time that 3D sticks? (1)
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We’ve all heard about Second Life. I loved it, but it didn’t “stick” for a whole bunch of reasons. Meaning, it didn’t go mainstream, even though it had a HUGE amount of hype. Why not? Well, it was an island that you had to go into. Problem is, only gamers do that and Second Life wasn’t enough of a game. World of Warcraft came along and took a lot of the gamers away from it. ...
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We’ve all heard about Second Life. I loved it, but it didn’t “stick” for a whole bunch of reasons. Meaning, it didn’t go mainstream, even though it had a HUGE amount of hype. Why not? Well, it was an island that you had to go into. Problem is, only gamers do that and Second Life wasn’t enough of a game. World of Warcraft came along and took a lot of the gamers away from it. ...
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Looks like today was the day Virtual Worlds arrived and merged with Facebook, AOL IM and Google with Vivaty- 3D Virtual World Plug in for Facebook / AIM IMBut I didn't realize when I wrote that post earlier today - and played with Vivaty in my Facebook account using IE6 (it was buggy, but interesting) that Google, on the very same day, came out with Lively.com, which appears to do much the same thing, and ...Shared by Ismael Briasco (11)Contribute commentDelicious popular (621) permalink
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