Yes, you are absolutely correct if you guessed it is me setting in the virtual office of Obama in second life. After I have read some of the rumor which says linden lab will be sold for microsoft, I was searching for any information in secondlife, and by chance I discovered a sim called the united states of America, where there was a building for a lot of brand names, including google building. I will come back to that google building as it has some interesting information. Okey, the virtual white house, it is not a great building, it is supposed to be for an avatar called: “BarackObama Burnstein” search him, is it the real president playing SL in his spare time? Answere: I highly doubt! then why do I blog this? It is just interesting, and as well, the place is full of information about white house, Barak Obama, and most of important presidents of second life. Apparently, while the Swedish government decided to build a formal embassy in second life, someone decided to build an unofficial sim about USA. The building is not that great at all thought, but again, it is full of information, and it has a sense of humor.
In that google building in front of virtual white house, there were information from someone who looks like s/he works in microsoft. A lot of information acutally, may be the most interesting information I have read was the webGL browser.. and html5, it is a type of technology which is still a work in progress, will allow us to run 3D applications like secondlife from our browsers. Yes, that means a 3rd party web based client like Ajax will have the ability to run avatars too on web without any need to download a single plugin!
This article is meant to say as well, there is no information told about owning secondlife by Microsoft, there are a lot of brands in that sim, and a lot of real life business in second life, but no, Microsoft isn’t there, it even doesn’t own a single 512×512 land in the grid, and I even highly doubt they know what second life is.
links of interest:
- Microsoft Buys Vivaty For New Project, May Be Looking For More
- Microsoft to buy Second Life
- Might Microsoft break its acquisition drought with a social gaming company?
