"Ahead of the times" strikes again

[jducoeur]

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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[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...

[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.