Google developing Second Life competitor?
Great. Word on the street is that Google is working on a competitor to Second Life. For those of you that don’t know, Second Life is an online "life simulator" that provides participants with an opportunity to live vicariously through an avatar. Real money is used to purchase Second Life money, which is in turn used to purchase fake clothing, food, and sex (yeah, sex). We’re pretty sure that a single Second Life is one too many, but Google may not see it that way. The company is reportedly testing its own "3D virtual world technology" that would provide many of the same "benefits" as the current iteration of Second Life. Combined with Google Earth, we could see this turning into the sort of hyper reality that leads to increased instances of schizophrenia, homicide, and general insanity. That’s just us, though. Like many of the products and ideas that Google tests, there’s a good chance that this will never see the light of day. If it happens to emerge from their deep, dark labs, however, you can bet that we’ll be running for hills.
Google is a great company but this is the wrong step for them and I highly doubt someone is going to use their “Second Life” over the current.
To me Second Life is useless anyways, why would I spend real money just to do fake things such as buy sex? Should I not spend that Real money to get Real Sex?
Just a bad idea all around. This could be a way of making an OS, so who knows.
Nice, will look forward for it. I just hope i can run it on my system, i could not run second life.
here’s why…
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-08/ff_sheep
lots of financial opportunities in the virtual la la land, if it ever takes off. the problem with SL is that the platform and software are too buggy, they’re too slow on releasing updates (vista update was in beta as of a month ago), etc. not to mention that mountain of an issue about being the ‘first’ one out the door and too far ahead of it’s time.
if google jumps on board, watch the virtual world take off like hotcakes in the United States.