Comments on: Google eyeing its own 'Second Life?'

A report says the search giant is testing a virtual world at Arizona State University.

[t8]

connnect?

Is connnect the same as connect?

[Mapper99]

Google Earth...

I think that Google has positioned themselves nicely with Google Sketchup, Google Street View and Google Earth. I think Google Earth will become the client for Google Virtual World with the Street View Imagery superimposed on the Google Sketchup data. Can't wait to see! In the meantime, I'll enjoy the fun found using Google Street View:

http://www.laudontech.com/google-street-view/google-street-view.html

[GreenbushLabs]

using the open source Croquet?

Im holding out a sliver of hope this involves Croquet?

Rich
@ http://rich.greenbush.us

[NWLB]

Interesting if true.

This is an interesting rumor. Though I'm curious how exactly they'd imcorperate Google Earth.

Its tempting to think you could going and find your home on a virtual map of the city you live in. But will companies sue for planting, say for example, a travel agency location on the virtual map of Dodge Island in Miami? Would planting a virtual business next door to a cruise line's headquarters be treated as an implied copyright infringement? Could I fight somebody putting an virtual adult bookstore on the Google Earth location of my home, church, etc?

Odds are Google would dodge that issue. One way might be with instanced housing and territory, like you see with MMORPG games. I'm tracking the Lord of the Rings Online, which will overlap instances of streets and homes in groups. Sort of the Diagon Alley of the internet....there's a thought.

And surly Google sees a method to tap this pursuit for profit. I can see AdSense plugging into a virtual bar on virtual South Beach and getting money when people enter said venues-view ads as they go. Anchoring websites, or running a Google powered virtual section of a blog or website, that appeals to me directly.

I think Google would utterly crush Second Life, even if that game isn't the prime target for their efforts. Vastly more people willing to translate real money into virtual things through Google I suspect.

[mpflinn]

Can Google solve the Intel problem?

A word to Google: INTEL graphics chipsets are not supported by Second Life (you can?t use the site). And SL does not yet support Windows Vista.

I am not alone in finding an irony in the growing presence of Intel in SL; they recently opened a site with a conference center there. No help or hope for this problem from INTEL (a few of us have been on their blog). I guess they don?t use their own chips.

[slamb43]

My Intel Machine connects just fine to Second Life

I have been able to use the site via an Intel based Mac since November 2006, and the mac download specifically states that it's Universal. So the statement that Second Life and Linden Labs don't support Intel processors is not true.

[chieng333]

Yahoo virtual world not Google

I read some comments on techcrunch that show a video, it is not google, but yahoo beta testing their virtual world.