Jun 15
Nabaztag, the ubiquitous wifi rabbit, has now branched off into Second Life, with an API hook to the real deal in your boring First Life.
Like most inventive things in SL, this particular gizmo is the creation of an inventive user who decided that his bunny would be better used doing other things than giving the weather and doing tai-chi.
Whenever an action is performed, the Nabaztag can inform the player of this and read out any messages that have been typed. Sounds pretty cool.
Second Life seems to have become the talk of the e-town, with articles being devoted to it in various women’s mag (I have read no less than 2 in the past month) and a bit of highlight due to various elections.
[Via Nabazta(blo)g]
June 15th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I don’t really understand all the buzz over second life, Sure it has some nice features but nothing that is revolutionary. In the 1990’s, there was already similar technology available. “Le deuxieme monde” (1994-2001) featured a Massively Multiplayer Online universe representing Paris where people could interact and chat through 3D avatars. Ok I’m ranting about my VRML experience. Maybe it’s just the fact that it’s now popular that makes the difference.
By the way, here is a funny advice for our beloved geeks :
http://www.getafirstlife.com/
Oh, and … Power to the bunnies !
June 15th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I played SL for a week.
Then I realised that I’d end up spending far more RL money in it that I have in any other online game, so I uninstalled and went back to my ‘Box
June 15th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
When I saw that you had to use actual $ to get stuff in SL, I just could not be bothered to pay for… the Sims.