As some of you know I'm working on a Second Life project, whilst I hate the current state of Second Life....I also have extremely high hopes for it's long term future. Being a forward thinker I can see how SL/"some other 3d virtual environment" will have as much an influence on our lives as our assorted homepages/social networks do today.
Linden Labs have done some great things but they are also at a stage that they fundamentally have to radically change the way they move forward from here in order to survive...will they? who knows.
So it was with great interest that i read this article today.
http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/metaplace-unveiled-raph-koster/#more-10250
http://www.areae.net/
http://www.metaplace.com/
I'd never heard of him before but I totally understand why/where he is going.
Keep an eye on it.
Cheers,
Dean
Great post, Dean. I had thought we'd increasingly start to see the web converge with the metaverse but it looks like it could happen a lot sooner than many people expected. Thanks for sending.
ReplyDeleteNow, if only I could get the clueless major media company I work for to understand this vision...
Best,
David