Posts Tagged with ‘virtual-world’

Even Google makes mistakes from time to time and its own virtual reality Lively seems to be one of such mistakes. Today Google’s team working on Lively has admitted the mistake and announced the decision to shut Lively down explaining that the company needs to focus on its core lines of business - search, ads, and applications.
Lively definitely was a short-time experiment for Google: the internet giant launched its own tool for users to create 3D virtual worlds (”rooms”) only [...]

I may be exaggerating just a bit with my headline, but the U.S. Government is so determined to catch terrorists anywhere they are hiding out that they have plans to develop a system for identifying “abnormal” behavior in online virtual worlds like World of Warcraft.
The project has been codenamed Reynard, which I can only assume is after the mythical trickster Reynard. I'm not sure whether they mean the name to imply that the intelligence folks would be tricking the terrorists [...]

When virtual worlds – Second Life, in particular – first went online, there was considerable buzz built around the newly established market. Their dimensions were fresh with intrigue and interesting possibilities, and, well, lots of people ran with those ideas. In the months following its launch, Second Life took off in a big way. Later, however, after all the bubble wrap was removed and all users took to their own personal roles, so to speak, things kind of grew stagnant. [...]

Having heard the murmurs come out of Linden Lab to become the curious Second Life several years ago, and having watched it grow to a (allegedly) multi-million-strong world of avatars, where digital nookie lit red is as secretive and under-the-table as it is in reality and where some members manage to create fake stuff in exchange for real currency, I have to say I’m disturbed. Not about the adult activity. I couldn’t care less about that. It’s that the virtual world [...]