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Check out Google's latest venture: Lively is an immersive virtual world, kind of like Second Life, but browser-based and (I gather) trying to integrate more with the Web.

At a quick glance, it looks moderately close to what we were trying to do at Trenza, and perhaps even closer to my original goals when the VRML project started up back in 1994. (Although I doubt they've adopted the Portals mechanism that I've always wanted for navigating around.) Glad to see it actually happening, and slightly boggled that it's taken this long...

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Date: 2008-07-09 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peregrinning.livejournal.com
I just joined at work, and will be joining at home tonight.

Move quick if you want a good avatar name: someone who joined this morning got "Joy," while when I joined this afternoon, all the reasonable combinations of initials and name had already been taken...

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Date: 2008-07-09 08:55 pm (UTC)
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hwo did they get joy? it made me give 6 characters or more...

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Date: 2008-07-09 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peregrinning.livejournal.com
I got Peregrinning. See you around the Lively sometime.

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Date: 2008-07-09 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bkdelong.livejournal.com
No way.You were part of the VRML crowd with Behlendorf, Pesche, et al back then? Small world.

I remember many of us were trying to use Black Sun as a model. Ah, memories.

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Date: 2008-07-09 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com
“Mark Pesche (sp? that doesn't feel right)”

It's Mark Pesce. I met him in Grade 7, and we were in school together through High School. I mostly lost touch with him after that, except for snippets I hear from mutual acquaintances.

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Date: 2008-07-09 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bkdelong.livejournal.com
Yes, sorry. Blackberry limitations. Mark Pesce (http://markpesce.com/).

My only VRML claim to fame (if you could called it that for a freshman in college) was trying to get the right name for comp.*.vrml newsgroups decided and voted on (http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-vrml.1995q2/0518.html). I can't even remember how it all finished out....it was an excellent lesson in Net politics, however. ;)

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