Unlike Linden Labs’ Second Life here’s no ‘virtual economy’ here and the amount of customisation available is still fairly minimal (no user-generated objects can as yet be uploaded), but you can still have a lot of fun with Google’s new virtual ‘Lively’ worlds.
It’s free to download and install*, and pretty easy to get started with. You can embed your room into a webpage (see below) and even play YouTube videos on plasma TVs and movie screens (although that does get a bit tiresome after the second play-through).
So, created in 45 minutes whilst sat in the sunshine in the real world, here’s a virtual PlusNet Towers.. Come and say ‘Hi’ why don’t you?
P-j
* Windows only I’m afraid. And you’ll need to register a Google login if you’ve not already got one to get started.
This entry was posted by Peter Jackson on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pm and is tagged with community, Google, Virtual Worlds and is posted in the category Tech News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Finally got it working. I think my normal Google account is broken for this or something. One new account later, I'm in there but BOY is it slow....
@kelly, just because you're frustrated about the speed doesn't mean you can push me in the swimming pool again 
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