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Google Abandons Lively

by David Evans on November 20, 2008   in Uncategorized

Over the summer, Google launched Lively after three years of development. After four months, the project has been deemed a failure and is shutting down December 31st.
I wrote about The Effect of Google?s Lively On Virtual Dating Applications, which talks about the launch details as well as OmniDate, another browser-based virtual environment attempting to make [...]

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Google has finally gotten into the virtual reality market with Lively. As an early member of the Boston Computer Society’s Virtual Reality Group circa 1993, I have a longstanding interest in virtual worlds and keep up to date with SecondLife and to some extent MMORPG’s like WorldOfWarCraft as well as avatar-based chat.
Google thinks Lively will [...]

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