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Google Envies Second Life

Google has entered the Second Life virtual worlds space this week with Google Lively.

Google says:
"Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design"

You can learn more at SearchEngineWatche's Comprehensive Guide to Getting Started.

I suspect avatars that are beyond gaming are moving into the real world a lot more. I'll predict that 2008 and 2009 will be even bigger in terms of people moving into these worlds.

And on that note, there was another major announcement today on Global Neighborhoods.

"Sometime earlier today an avatar was successfully teleported from a SecondLife Virtual World preview Grid onto an OpenSim world developed by IBM, marking the first incident of virtual space travel by a virtual life form. While the folks at Linden Lab are emphasizing the limitations of what was accomplished, one cannot help but marvel at the implications of what it means."

The video of the event feels like a a cross between teleporting on Star Trek and the moon walk. I have the feeling that I am watching a beginning.

This development was pretty fast since I only blogged the IBM goal a few months ago (grin).

The commentary on the announcement also speculates that this may be as important as when the first US website went live (with a nifty picture of the first US website creator!).

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on July 09, 2008 (boomark / email).