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Washington Post: The sorry state of virtual worlds

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Not looking to good? CC/Annabeth Robinson

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.

Smooth moves for the immersive internet

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L.A.-based Oblong Industries offers this mesmerizing demo of its Minority Report-styled gesture interface product, G-Speak.

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G-Speak “redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional (graphic user interfaces),” according to the Oblong blog.

In other words, keyboards are out, and each of us will need to be a performance artist to use Photoshop.

One of the guys behind this company was a science advisor on the film, The Minority Report.

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