Move over Second Life. The 3D Web is starting to make inroads into the plain old browser. By “plain,” I mean only Internet Explorer on Windows machines—which for now is what you need to experience Vivaty Scenes
. But at least it’s a start. (Firefox support on PCs is coming in a few weeks, but Mac support is being pushed off further). - TechCrunch
Am I the only one who thinks 3D internet absolutely pointless? Think about it. With Vivaty, you walk around your Facebook life, interact with the room and virtual newspapers or whatever. Here’s what I think, “Guess what they just came out with! Real life!! You can eat and walk around and like ride cars and stuff!” How about that for 3D stuff? Well, I guess Vivaty and its kin could prove to be relatively entertaining sometimes, but still. But not only is it just a waste of time, a lot of people, including me, feel that things like this (and also World of Warcraft, especially) promote bad habits and anti social behavior. Its actually proven in a lot of cases that it does.
As always, post a comment and say what you think about Vivaty or Second Life or virtual worlds in general. Thanks!
July 8th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Well sure. Anybody can live in real life, but it’s all just so boring. 2D-3D is automatically so much better, plus you never have to shower, shave, or eat your vegetables! You can just buy stuff and kill people. What’s not to like?
July 8th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
idk, idk, idk…
July 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Why’d you remove me on the left navigation? jw, nothing else
July 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
right*
July 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Yay! It’s there again! Thanks!
September 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Just started to read your blogs, and I like them a lot! I’m pretty sure I’m your age…?
I agree with what you said…people get SO wrapped up in games and whatnot, that they don’t want to do anything else.
But, I’m not talking from, I guess you could call it ‘hard-core’ experience because I’m not and never was a huge online gamer, and I don’t have any video games (thanks to my mom and dad), but I do have family members that are all about their xbox 360…..so, I’m not a total dope on the subject, but I am no where near what some people are like when it comes to them and their games.