Of course, Sony's not really throwing in the towel of what they're doing, but the hype about it being a "SL Killer" clearly can die.
MTV asks all the right questions in their latest inteview with Phil Harrison about Sony's "Home" MMOVW. Let me embed it right here:
So, things to note:
1. There's going to start off with "lobbies" and "apartments" and work into other spaces. A lobby will start off with 64 simultaneous users, sharded "infinitely". An apartment, with more video and media sharing abilities, will start off allowing a whopping 16 users.
2. Harrison makes clear that Home is intended for gamers, as he calls it "a springboard into a deeper gaming experience." I thought this was cool because it makes sense. There's already waiting areas in games, and hangout spaces related to games. Translating them into 3-D, and adding a MySpace-your-own-apartment element to it is a natural progression of what already exists.
3. And then MTV asks if there was anything relevant for the MTV viewers. Cue backpedaling!
"it's not just about game brands, it could also be a record company, it could be a building space, it could be a cool nightclub building space. It's just 3-D Graphics, it's really easy to build out. "
O-ho! Did he just say what I think he said? "It's just 3-D Graphics"? Has the gauntlet been dropped, or was Harrison just hamming it up for the MTV cameras? Take that, Philip Rosedale! You guys at Linden Lab apparently have been doing it all wrong all this time. It's just 3-D graphics, and you folks clearly need to just tighten them up:
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I might have missed something on that interview... ok, it's a social MMOG, but... does it have user-generated content at all?
Gwyneth - I think "user created content" in the Sony thing is limited to furniture placement. :)
So, sure there's some artistic possibilities, but Sony is NOT going to come anywhere close to allowing clothing creation or furniture creation or anything else that the empty suits will equate to penis gun creation. ;)
What Sony means by "user created content" is the pictures, music and videos (ala YouTube) that can be uploaded to your apartment. It will make for an interesting phenomenon - Mark Wallace is calling it "social media consumption" and should give MySpace a run for it's money - but it's not what we in SL are used to when talking about user created content.
It's a great idea, with amazing potential, like Second Life. I just hope that Sony can learn from SL mistakes...
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