Google has recently launched its new 3D service to make social web more creative and less static. Web world already allows us to play in a 2D world. Users can chit chat via text and can send videos and pictures to make it all more expressive and funny. But users were still limited to typical available chat rooms as they cannot make their own virtual rooms and characters to intermingle and chat with each other. Thus, Google go a head one step with Lively.com to blend 3D world into a web-ish look that can entertain users far more better then the usual 2D web trait. The service in its beta phase is officially a part of Google Labs.
Lively. com enables people to experience the real essence of 3D world by exploring new dimensions in a web era. It is true that actions speaks louder then words and the new service by Google will help users to be more expressive and interactive without typing or saying words.
Google’s Lively allows users to create their own virtual world. You can start from scratch or can copied and altered number of sample rooms. Virtual Rooms gives you a sense as if you are roaming in your own room. You can alter furniture, customize your avatars according to your personality and can chat through animated actions as GTalk itself is a chat engine. You can make your avatars perform various actions such as manipulating things and dancing. Users can also enhance their virtual environment by carving more creative arts with the help of Picasa (Google’s photo service) and YouTube.
At a time, 20 people can occupy a virtual room and chat with each other with the cartoon style bubbles text appearance.
Windows users can embed their own created 3D world into their web pages (such as blogs and social networks) by downloading and installing add-on. However, the current version is not supporting Mac and Linux devices.
Sourced from startupmeme
Update:
Some of the most interesting features of Lively are:
* A Lively room can be embedded to any webpage/blog using an iFrame.
* No registration required. Just use Google account.
* There are multiple worlds e.g. super heroes, islands, fantasy etc.
* Runs right inside from the browser.
* Users can watch YouTube videos on Televisions inside rooms.
* Users can hug, shake hands, play games, chat and much more!
As my personal experience says, Lively is just too fun and addictive. It requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Note: Make sure you have the latest version of flash and enough patience to get used to bugs as the service is in Beta.
Have you tried this?
Good to see you blog after a long long time
Thanks Manasa. Ofcourse I have tried this
it is off the chain