With the recent launch of a number of virtual worlds such as Google Lively, Vivity and WebFlock virtual worlds inside the browsers seems ‘the way to go’. This poses many interesting questions, the most obvious one so far goes something like “Will browser-based worlds such as Google Lively replace virtual worlds requiring a download and [...]

Posted on: August 16, 2008 | 35 Comments »

I must have missed the Rivers Run Red promotional video for their development in the Google World Lively, because apparently it has been up since the 8th of July. But as it was just a great promotional clip of the platform and Rivers run Red as a development company I bookmarked it here [...]

Posted on: August 13, 2008 | No Comments »

Following Google’s’ Lively, it is now the Electric Sheep Company’s (ESC) turn to reveal their browser-based virtual world: WebFlock. WebFlock is completely Flash Based unlike Lively, and their business model is very different as well.
“WebFlock is an application for private-labeled Web-based virtual experiences. It provides a visually immersive environment for social interaction, media consumption [...]

Posted on: July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Take two on Googles virtual world Lively. I had to try again at home, hoping this time the customization functions would not fail me. Using Vista and Firefox 3 I expected even more problems but apart from having the installer crash once this time I did get to experience the full ‘Livelyness’ of the application.
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Posted on: July 14, 2008 | No Comments »