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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 510756" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p>Whether or not you’re into websites like <a href="http://www.techradar.com/search/results?searchterm=facebook&dated=&datem=&datey=&show=&sort=date" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and games like <a href="http://www.techradar.com/search/results?searchterm=second+life&submit.x=0&submit.y=0" target="_blank">Second Life</a> is very much a matter of taste, but have you ever wondered how the pair would taste when mashed together into a rich Web 2.0 fricassee?</p><p>That odd recipe is exactly the formula chosen by US software firm <a href="http://www.vivaty.com/" target="_blank">Vivaty</a> in taking the flat world of Facebook’s walls and favourites lists and placing them in a more game-like three-dimensional environment.</p><p><strong>Emotional Engagement</strong></p><p>The Vivaty software, which will appear as an add-on to Facebook this summer, gives users their own 3D rooms, within which they can display content as they please and can add furniture or have face-to-face virtual chats with online friends.</p><p>Vivaty CEO, Keith McCurdy, explains: “We’ve been… building a platform that we think will change the way we all experience the web. We call it the Immersive Web, which is a new level of visual richness and emotional engagement that makes the things we do today on the web more exciting.”</p><p>He continues: “We believe personal expression can go beyond listing some interests in a profile. Media sharing can be more than tagging and commenting. And communication can get more real-time, expressive and emotive. That is our goal.”</p><p><strong>Web experience</strong></p><p>There’s nothing particularly new about such virtual arenas, but Vivaty’s approach of creating them entirely through a web browser sets it apart from power-hungry applications like Second Life.</p><p>As for the business model, Vivaty plans further licensing deals like the Facebook one that could see online virtual showrooms with a human touch or even digital meetings for home workers and the folks in the office.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/facebook-modders-to-bring-touch-of-realism-328333" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Feedster, post: 510756, member: 259515"] Whether or not you’re into websites like [URL="http://www.techradar.com/search/results?searchterm=facebook&dated=&datem=&datey=&show=&sort=date"]Facebook[/URL] and games like [URL="http://www.techradar.com/search/results?searchterm=second+life&submit.x=0&submit.y=0"]Second Life[/URL] is very much a matter of taste, but have you ever wondered how the pair would taste when mashed together into a rich Web 2.0 fricassee? That odd recipe is exactly the formula chosen by US software firm [URL="http://www.vivaty.com/"]Vivaty[/URL] in taking the flat world of Facebook’s walls and favourites lists and placing them in a more game-like three-dimensional environment. [B]Emotional Engagement[/B] The Vivaty software, which will appear as an add-on to Facebook this summer, gives users their own 3D rooms, within which they can display content as they please and can add furniture or have face-to-face virtual chats with online friends. Vivaty CEO, Keith McCurdy, explains: “We’ve been… building a platform that we think will change the way we all experience the web. We call it the Immersive Web, which is a new level of visual richness and emotional engagement that makes the things we do today on the web more exciting.” He continues: “We believe personal exp[B][/B]ression can go beyond listing some interests in a profile. Media sharing can be more than tagging and commenting. And communication can get more real-time, expressive and emotive. That is our goal.” [B]Web experience[/B] There’s nothing particularly new about such virtual arenas, but Vivaty’s approach of creating them entirely through a web browser sets it apart from power-hungry applications like Second Life. As for the business model, Vivaty plans further licensing deals like the Facebook one that could see online virtual showrooms with a human touch or even digital meetings for home workers and the folks in the office. [url=http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/facebook-modders-to-bring-touch-of-realism-328333]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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