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07.09.08Google’s Lively: It’s No Metaverse, and What Their TOS Tells UsGoogle's launch of Lively, it's entry to the 3D Web, ends months of speculation and at first glance is both a disappointment and a pleasure, but certainly doesn't advance the underpinnings of the metaverse, not yet at least, and can hardly even be called a world at all. As GigaOm reports, it's more akin to the 800 lb gorilla in the room giving a wave and saying "Yeah, I'm here." Only it turns out that it's wearing a tutu and has blue hair. Way back when, I imagined Google bashing open the doors to the true Metaverse - you know, the ...
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