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12.15.08

Sony Home: A User Reviews Business in Virtual Worlds, Identity and Expression, Virtual World Platforms | (0)
More on Sony Home later in the week, but to kick things off following is one of the better (and perhaps more enthusiastic) reviews of the platform: Clearly, Home is a visually rich environment. I'm particularly impressed with the avatar customization. The environments are richly rendered, although the importance of this is always a debatable point: it's the 'eye candy' that can get you to stay past the first few minutes, but richly rendered does not necessarily mean rich experiences. Continue Reading...

Tagged: immersive web, Little Big Planet, Second Life, sony, sony home
07.08.08

While Second Life Teleports, Vivaty Gives a Widgie Virtual World Platforms | (4)
Vivaty announced that it now offers users of Facebook and AIM the ability to host Vivaty Scenes on their social networking profiles, thus becoming a 3D virtual widget in a Web 2.0 world. Heralding the golden age of the chatty Web, the Vivaty blog reminds us that we are ALL immersed: The signs of a more immersive web are all around us: we wake up every day to more media sharing APIs, more “live” and self-expression options on IM clients, and more visual depth being added to profiles on even the most simply-designed sites like Facebook. The web is getting more ...

Tagged: immersive web, Second Life, social networking profiles, social networks, vivaty, Web-based virtual worlds, YouTube

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