Manamanah! Streaming YouTube video into Google Lively

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Oh yeah. Amy Buckland invited me to play on Jambina’s raft’ in Google’s Lively (virtual-world-in-a-browser)

I dipped into my inventory, pulled out a TV set, used the edit option to add a YouTube URL to it …. and here’s a little movie of what happened

I wonder whether Google has moves to create a U-Stream kind of service. I can image a whole bunch of avatars sitting around on a raft, watching a U-stream type of show and using Lively as the chat-room, instead of the boring little window at the side of the screen at the moment.

Sirexkat Island in google Lively Beta virtual world

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Google announced today the beta release of their virtual-world-in-a-browser , Lively .

If you want a serious review, try the one in ArsTechnica: Hands-on: Google’s Lively social 3D world is 20 percent done .

First impressions? Easier to get into and get going than Second Life. I think it’s cute the way that entering an emoticon in my chat animates my avatar eg. a smiley 🙂 makes her jump and laugh. Obviously not as sophisticated as Second Life, but very, very interesting to see what can happen once some decent editing tools are released. And I wonder just who owns the intellectual property in what you create …..

I’ve created my own island, Sirexkat Island. I’ve taken a photo, made a movie and embedded the room right into this blog post. I’d be interested whether that comes out in the RSS feed 🙂

The photo

Sirexkat Island

The movie