Second life have recently been in the news alot. It’s an online community where you create a character and you can then use this character in a 3D world called Second Life.
Second Life is a bit like the hugely popular MMORG, World of Warcraft. But difference between these two applications is that World of Warcraft is a game, and Second Life is actually an application where people make real life money, and also buy virtual properties like Islands, houses, furniture. People have actually started their own businesses in Second Life, and are apparently making some significant money this way. Google Earth also have some tools to make a 3D world, people create 3D models of actual buildings/structures and post them online so people can download them to Google Earth and see how a building looks in 3D form. Google Earth is an exploration tool, where you explore the earth and see what people have created, or just take a look at the earth through satellite images. Second Life is also an exploration tool, but it’s much more than that. You create friendships, have customers for your business and much much more. They’ve created it much like the real life, just in virtual form, as the name also implies.
Recently Sony introduced the concept of PlayStation Home for their game console Playstation 3. This is very much like Second Life, and the makers of Playstation Home have clearly taken more than a few hints from Second Life. You can take a look at the PlayStation Home service from the video below.
The main focus around the PlayStation Home service is to let people interact with each other by either typing messages, or talking through a Bluetooth headset. You have your own “home” on this service, where you can show of some pictures, videos etc. Finally it’s a place where people make friends and can invite others to join them in Playstation games right from this Home service.
