Developers’ Selection

Last week we read on some news site’s that Google launched a new virtual reality environment called “Lively”. On Webwereld.nl they called it a combination of The Sims and Second Life, which is an appropriate description I think. We gave the beta version of Lively a first closer look.

After having logged in with our Google account, we could make an avatar. The basic avatars variate from cartoon-like figures to “normal” looking avatars. Once we had an avatar we began making a room…

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Normally, computer nerds (as people as me are labelled), only get a warm feeling looking at a brand new mother board that is again some not-noticable percents faster then the previous version. Mostly, the warm feeling in those cases is caused by the blush I get when I look back at the bill after having bought the motherboard in an impuls. This weekend however, a warm feeling was developed inside, not by a brand new silicon device, nor by looking at a bill…

I was at the Relay for Life event that was held June 19 and 20 in Second Life, and was simply amazed. I started at the sim Heroes 16, where one of my best “SL-friends” Talia (together with others) builded the archery range of Robin Hood. After having tried to aim but always missing the target, I joined her and some others at the side of the path that goes through all the sims of this event.

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Each year again, a huge number of people organizes several events in Second Life to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Every time again you’re amazed by how many people participate, and what they accomplish. One of the most “visible” events is the one the group “Heroes” organizes. They build an entire scenery, several sims large, in which events are held.

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…but a great step for virtual reality.

In my opinion, this is the best way to describe the result Linden Labs & IBM booked last week. Developers of Linden Labs and IBM managed to teleport succesfully an avatar from the Second Life grid to a grid of the open source community.

Only the avatar was teleported, the inventory, clothing or apparel weren’t. And it was only an experiment, “normal” users can’t use this feature yet. Why is this so important then?

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