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Title: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Trippy on October 10, 2007, 06:22:09 AM http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/free-the-avatars/
Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Venkman on October 10, 2007, 06:53:26 AM Thought they'd been working on this for awhile? Maybe not.
Also, isn't this akin to what Multiverse is doing to? Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Alkiera on October 10, 2007, 07:04:36 AM From the sounds of that article, Araea is well ahead of them when it comes to actual development of an idea. That article sounded like 'Hey, we thought this sounded neat, so we're issuing a press release!'
Heck, BYOND had that kind of functionality, too; in that you had a BYOND ID that you used to log in to any game, and you could build in-game portals that transported you to other servers. Just tack on a standard set of avatar art (even easier in Metaplace's web-like format) and viola, it's done. -- Alkiera Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Numtini on October 10, 2007, 07:15:14 AM That sounds to me like the Linden PR machine spinning up. As far as I can tell the entire "SL Grid" thing is nothing more than a slogan.
Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Arrrgh on October 10, 2007, 07:25:00 AM This is the one they should be worried about.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/11/technology/business2_futureboy_0511/index.htm?postversion=2006051215 Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: tmp on October 10, 2007, 07:33:28 AM Also, isn't this akin to what Multiverse is doing to? Somewhat wider because multiverse worlds still share common server/client architecture etc. What they talk of is more like, having "AV server" that is not linked to any virtual world and/or platform in particular but holds generic description of one's AV, that separate and completely different games can connect to in order to find out what appearance/inventory/wealth your AV should have.Not sure if Metaplace is aiming to have anything similar btw, but maybe I missed comments to that effect. Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: Venkman on October 10, 2007, 08:44:36 AM The one thing Google has the ability to do is launch something whether that one thing will make money or not. That is a concern to anyone. But until they actually launch something at all, it's just vague notions other companies can't do anything about.
In general though, there's less ways of knowing whether Google's work (if it ever comes out) takes over the world in one of the ways that world's business success factors are measured. For example, WoW won in terms of AAA-quality full-screen immersive subscription-based MMORPGs. But they didn't win against every single persistent world that has concurrent players within them due to the large variety of business models out there propping up different companies with different measures. Title: Re: Competition for Metaplace coming from IBM and Linden Lab Post by: CharlieMopps on October 10, 2007, 09:22:08 AM I think what Google is more likely to do is create a tool to make a metiverse with.
You could have the modern, chat/shopping world. (that would be their cash cow) and then, with the same system, someone comes along and does WWII era europe with guns and tanks and whatnot Then a fantasy version. etc... So much could be done with an entire planets worth of terrain pre-built. Especially if it's all housed under 1 free model like Google usually does. |