PS3 Virtual world unveiled and Lego too
This is being reported all over the place and may be quite a coup for Sony and the PS3. They have unveiled the first shots and stories around a ‘free’ virtual world that PS3 owners will be able to use and interact with via the Cell powered game console.
Some of the finer details will come out in time, it would appear that it certainly tries to trump the Xbox 360 Live service and achievements by placing game awards and bragging rights in your digital world aparment for your friends to come on by and see with you.
3Pointd has some footage, also Eric Rice has some links other coverage such as this MTV article hint and even more of the depth and attempt to contrast with what we have in Second Life.
We have had a bit of a buzz on twitter about it tonight too, and an important point Aidy rasied around how closed the platform is likely to be from content creation and external data feeds. After all if it gets too easy to build things then that would challenge the games content?
If it does have mashup power too though, this could become a very interesting angle on virtual worlds and enhance its acceptance even more.
I usually pitch about the Playstation generation entering the workforce, knowing how to move and kill in 3d so easily accepting business applications in the metaverse. Well now the PS3 generation will know how to move and socialize and work in 3d metaverses too.
All that and Lego are planning a virtual world too, which is linked in terms of generational acceptance and expectancy of the presence of virtual worlds. Construction fits into the Lego concept, and fuels the the post PS3 generation. Also lets face it we all still love Lego. Though Roo used to trade rare Lego on ebay so he wins on the Lego front.
Having a generational migration path through the various platforms, some for play some for work, raises all the questions about how we represent ourselves in each and how we are able to move between them. Is the answer meta conversations like twitter or a morphing portal between worlds that prepares you like the apparent ritual of leaving the Second Life teen grid when you come of age?
Its going to be interesting finding all this out.
March 8th, 2007 at 02:28
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April 14th, 2007 at 06:24
Can Lego’s RAP?
The already important issue of interoperability is raised to another level in this post about the upcoming Lego virtual world
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April 14th, 2007 at 06:24
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July 4th, 2007 at 08:43
I will be VERY ineterested to see if this whole 3Dvirtual world thing catches on
Matt
June 20th, 2008 at 07:54
I understand that these virtual worlds are used to help agrophobia and encourage social interaction by autistics.
And as for the Lego one.. bring it on!!!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 22:48
Cool… I’m afraid kids would get addicted to it too much.
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January 6th, 2009 at 06:22
The PS3 is still pretty steep in price I can see, but I found a nice site that offers free ps3 to select places in the US.
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February 10th, 2009 at 14:19
this sound alot like home to me ~ or am i just waffeling
June 7th, 2009 at 17:03
[...] are all things that happen today in virtual worlds. As Ian Hughes/epredator pointed out on the EightBar blog back in 2007 when Sony was talking about creating a virtual world for Playstation3, that would be too much of a [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 20:47
The virtual thing seems to be something that the big 3 are using more and more.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:06
Thank you for the excellent article
December 29th, 2009 at 01:45
I searched for this info about the playstation 3 a long time, thanks. :)