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Not looking too good: A PS3 Home avatar takes a moment to herself. CC/Annabeth Robinson
A Washington Post columnist notes the seemingly hard times that have befallen inworld-types, in a bit about Sony’s “Home”:
Google, for example, is pulling the plug on Lively, a virtual environment it launched earlier this year. And news service Reuters is shuttering a virtual bureau it had opened in the once-buzzworthy Second Life. In a farewell note posted last month, reporter Eric Krangel confessed that he found using the service “about as fun as watching paint dry.”
via Mike Musgrove - PS3’s Virtual Home Is Inhospitable - washingtonpost.com.
But things are about to take a turn for the better in virtual worlds.
My 2009-2012 prediction (it’ll happen somewhere in there): Every internet user will acquire (or be assigned) an avatar of his own.
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Quote: “My 2009-2012 prediction (it’ll happen somewhere in there): Every internet user will acquire (or be assigned) an avatar of his own.”
Mark, in reference to your assigned avatar comment, why do you think that? Is this related to the article you published a while back on the Pentagon’s computer model of each citizen?