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Originally Posted by Ordinal Malaprop  Look, I can log into Second Life right now, and it will work. (It just did.) I can go and buy clothes and put them on and pretty much all of the time they will be there. I can edit my appearance, it will change. If I am the sort to build or script I can do that and it will happen. 99.9% of the time.
We complain about the 0.1% of the time that it doesn't, and quite reasonably so - over all of the hours we spend there that works out to be quite a bit - but compared to this sort of thing, There/IMVU on the web which simply doesn't work, all it does is make me think that SL is the best thing ever. Right now. |
There is a large body of Second Life participants that are mostly visitors. They don't own land and don't build anything but some do spend money to express themselves in their avaters. There is another group that has their 512m or 1024m plots of land and express themselves on those. They spend more money and have a 3d environment in which to express themselves.
Lively could appeal to those groups. They could have their own 3d rooms on their MySpace/Facebook pages that their friends could visit. They could express themselves in their avatars and the 3d spaces that are their Lively rooms. Once the application is stable, the content creators set loose and the viral nature of an embeddable application takes hold this could be very big and put a serious dent in the more causal Second Life visitors.
Tess