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Google unveils its long-awaited virtual world technology

Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat07.08.2008
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Google is going into the virtual world business today as it unveiled “Lively by Google,” a product that lets users create highly personalized 3-D virtual rooms on the web. Users can create their own custom characters, or avatars, and interact with friends through text chats or animations. The long-awaited move has been... (Read more)

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Well, actually we were waiting for something much more ambitious, like a virtual world leveraging on Google Earth, instead we have something quite common. There is a small company that just entered in beta, and has developed a scalable virtual world on Google Maps. This new virtual world is Twinverse
www.twinverse.com


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