Comments on: Google Lively http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/ educational technology, eLearning & emerging technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Mike Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:53:02 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-228 Thanks for the tip Justin. I'll be sure to check it out! Mike Thanks for the tip Justin. I’ll be sure to check it out!

Mike

]]> By: Justin http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Justin Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:51:27 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-227 Active Worlds is another great place that doesn't need a huge powerful computer, AND it will work with dialup! Active Worlds is another great place that doesn’t need a huge powerful computer, AND it will work with dialup!

]]> By: Mike http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Mike Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:51:14 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-226 Hi Matt, I'm pretty enthusiastic about Lively as well, and for several reasons. I quite like the sense of personal space (or perhaps personal virtual space) that this room-based system offers. Certainly SecondLife does this as well, as you can restrict who is able to teleport to a location - but to me for some reason having a unique spot - or island unto itself - that isn't part of a wider realm feels much more private and homey. As I mentioned in the video comment above, I also really like the ease of use that Lively affords its users. SecondLife is definitely the more immersive of the two and offers far more potential to create realism - as well as surrealism - but the learning curve is substantial. So if users are after a basic realm that is theirs, and theirs alone, Lively might be the better choice. It's sort of like you can include all the stuff you want to exist, and none of the stuff you want to omit. So it's more targeted and specific. SecondLife definitely has its place in all this though. In fact I'd say that if you're going to use a virtual environment for educational purposes, SecondLife is still the way to go as you have a great deal more flexibility and granularity to create the experience in exactly the way you want to. It's far more in-depth a realm. At the same time this is only Lively's first day out of the package, so who knows where Google will take it. Cheers, Mike Hi Matt,

I’m pretty enthusiastic about Lively as well, and for several reasons.

I quite like the sense of personal space (or perhaps personal virtual space) that this room-based system offers. Certainly SecondLife does this as well, as you can restrict who is able to teleport to a location – but to me for some reason having a unique spot – or island unto itself – that isn’t part of a wider realm feels much more private and homey.

As I mentioned in the video comment above, I also really like the ease of use that Lively affords its users. SecondLife is definitely the more immersive of the two and offers far more potential to create realism – as well as surrealism – but the learning curve is substantial. So if users are after a basic realm that is theirs, and theirs alone, Lively might be the better choice.

It’s sort of like you can include all the stuff you want to exist, and none of the stuff you want to omit. So it’s more targeted and specific.

SecondLife definitely has its place in all this though. In fact I’d say that if you’re going to use a virtual environment for educational purposes, SecondLife is still the way to go as you have a great deal more flexibility and granularity to create the experience in exactly the way you want to. It’s far more in-depth a realm.

At the same time this is only Lively’s first day out of the package, so who knows where Google will take it.

Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Matthew Smith http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Matthew Smith Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:38:19 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-225 Wow I'm really excited about this. I was turned off second life because it just seemed to ugly and fiddly (also my computer could barely run it). I hope google's offering is more accessible. I like the idea of it being room based but being able to have your avatar visit different rooms - it seems like this can then be more distributed like potentially you could host your room on your server as long as it is 'lively compatible'. Wow I’m really excited about this. I was turned off second life because it just seemed to ugly and fiddly (also my computer could barely run it). I hope google’s offering is more accessible. I like the idea of it being room based but being able to have your avatar visit different rooms – it seems like this can then be more distributed like potentially you could host your room on your server as long as it is ‘lively compatible’.

]]> By: Mike http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Mike Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:38:14 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-224 RE: Google Lively {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/V8dIQk3KW0_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"RE: Google Lively "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/5Twa7Z8YyO"}}} RE: Google Lively {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/V8dIQk3KW0_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”RE: Google Lively ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/5Twa7Z8YyO”}}}

]]> By: Tim http://techticker.net/2008/07/09/google-lively/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Tim Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:25:39 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=261#comment-223 Lively has certainly caught my eye - can't wait for a Mac version. I stopped by your island a minute ago, but have to take off for a meeting (with Google, ironically). Lively has certainly caught my eye – can’t wait for a Mac version. I stopped by your island a minute ago, but have to take off for a meeting (with Google, ironically).

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