Rumors of Second Life on Google Earth

September 24th, 2007 by tim finin

Google Operating System has an intriguing post, A Social Network for Google Earth?, making a case that Google is readying a new application combining social networking, 3D modeling and video games. Now that’s an interesting combination.

The evidence? An un-named company is recruiting Arizona State students to beta-test a new product.

The post speculates that the idea is to base a virtual world on Google earth

“The speculation about a Google Earth Second Life started last year. “The notion that you can create objects and buildings and place them in a virtual world makes Google Earth sounds less like a mapping tool and more like a metaverse. What’s a metaverse? Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson introduced the term in his seminal 1992 novel, Snow Crash. (…) In Stephenson’s novel, millions of users uploaded customized “avatars,” or virtual personalities, and strolled the street, entering shops and exclusive nightclubs, conversing and trading with the metaverse’s other denizens.” In fact, Snow Crash .” (link)

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