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Google Lively The Social Virtual World Launched

by admin on July 8, 2008

Google Lively

Google Lively has just been launched by Google.com which is dubbed a Social Virtual World similar to the teen Second Life, but labeled as a “Chat Experience” by the search engine giant Google. So you are now probably wondering What is Google Lively, and How does Google Lively Work?

You can create a room or “space” and invite your friends over to chat, choose an avatar and customize it, stream movies, video and personal photos then even add your room to your site and invite your firends over to chat and help decorate your room.

Google Lively will soon enable people to import friends from other social networks and platforms, add various Google products in to your room such as YouTube Video or a Search Panel. You can also take your Avatar, (almost like a virtual you) and put it in other peoples rooms on the web. Also knowing Google, considering they are primarily an Advertising Company more then the common Search Engine people associate them with they will introduce Adsense in to the Google Lively product possibly enabling people to earn revenue from their rooms and allow advertisers to market to specific demographics.

The Google Lively needs to be downloaded to your PC, it requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox. Already Apple Mac and Linux users are showing a bit of protest over at the Google Groups as so far Apple Mac and Linux are not compatible with Google Lively however i don’t think it will be too long before support is added because i know a lot of Google Employee’s are Linux and Mac users. Surprisingly the downloadable .exe is only 468kb in size.

Here’s how the whole Google Lively system works:

DOWNLOAD

1. Visit http://lively.com/ (You can also install by visiting any room URL or clicking on a room embedded in a webpage).
2. Click the Download Lively button.
3. Click Save file to open the livelysetup.exe file.

INSTALL
At this point, click Open to continue installing lively. You can also click the livelysetup.exe file that appears on your desktop.

1. You’ll see messages that Lively is installing and a status bar showing your progress.
2. When the install is complete, click Close.

If you haven’t specified a room to visit, you’ll be taken to the Room List. Select which room you’d like to enter and you’ll see a sign-in screen. If you’re visiting a specific room, you’ll be taken directly to the sign-in prompt, but you can visit the Room List later. If no Lively windows open automatically, just visit www.lively.com/rl or double-click the Lively icon on your desktop.

You Choose a Google Lively room

* From the Room List, click the title of the room you’d like to visit first.
* Use the tabs at the top of the page to sort rooms by most popular, most visitors, or newest.
* Once you’ve added friends or created a room, the My Rooms and Friends’ Rooms tabs will also be handy.

Choose your Google Lively avatar

1. Click My Avatar on the right sidebar.
2. Click the avatar you like and choose Select Avatar (your avatar changes instantly).
3. Once you’ve chosen the one you want, click the X to hide the menu.

Change your Google Lively avatar’s clothing

To change your outfit, check out the styles available in the wardrobe picker. Here’s how:

1. Click My Wardrobe on the right sidebar to open your wardrobe.
2. Browse or search the options in your wardrobe inventory and select items to wear. When you double-click an item, it’ll appear on your avatar instantly. You don’t have to close the window to find out if you like the look.

If you don’t like how something looks on your avatar, go back to your wardrobe, left-click on the item, and choose Remove Item.

If you want more wardrobe options, add new stuff to your inventory by o quickly change your entire outfit, click my avatar and choose I’m Feeling Lucky . You’ll see the new duds on your avatar instantly.

Create your own Google Lively room

1. Click new room and choose Create New Room to start the process.
2. Look over each tab and choose what you want your room to look like, the permissions you want to grant visitors, and whether you’d like to play music in your room.

Also just to note, you need DirectX 9 and hardware acceleration enabled on your PC. Google Lively also will NOT run on the following Video Cards sorry to say, Lively is a Google Labs product and in regular Google fashion we are running with Lively Beta. Here’s the cards NOT supported:

This is a list of known video cards that will not run on Lively:
- 3dfx (Voodoo 2)
- 3dfx Voodoo 3
- 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500
- 3dfx Voodoo 5
- 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1
- ATI 3D Rage Pro
- ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro
- ATI Fire GL 8700
- ATI Radeon 9000
- ATI Rage 128
- ATI Rage Fury
- ATI Xpert 98
- ATI Xpert@Play
- Creative Labs 3D Blaster (Riva TNT)
- Creative Labs 3D Blaster (Voodoo 2)
- Diamond Viper 550 (Riva TNT)
- Diamond Viper 770 (Riva TNT2 Model 64/64 Pro)
- Diamond Viper II
- Intel 810
- Intel 815 (32MB RAM)
- Matrox Millenium G400 DualHead
- Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead
- Matrox Millenium G550
- Matrox Millenium P750
- Matrox Parhelia
- nVidia Riva 128/128ZX
- nVidia Riva TNT
- nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64/64 Pro
- S3 3D Blaster Savage 4
- S3 Savage 2000
- SiS 305
- SiS Xabre 400
- STB BlackMagic 3D (Voodoo 2)
- STB Velocity 128

So there you have it, the Social Network slash Virtual World slash Untimate Chat Experience called Google Lively. It will be interesting to see how this one pans out in the future.

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