If you are truly a geek, you have more than likely heard of Second Life. You’ve probably tried it out and either got bored with it (like moi), or have been hanging around trying to fill your aching social void with virutal relationships (ouch!) However, though you may have messed around some with SL, I am surprised to find out how few people have heard of, IMHO the much more enjoyable and cool virtual world, “There“. If you are TOTALLY CLUELESS as to what I am talking about, both of these apps are free massive virtual worlds that you can download the client for (click one of the above), explore, play, create new objects and meet people. Obviously, one doesn’t want this to take over one’s life (which it does for many people), but I do think its a fun way to meet new people from around the world and to play, create, and explore in a totally new way. So, go ahead and try one of them, and, if you do, let me know what you think. Oh, and make sure you try and find or IM “wonderosity” while you are there…if I’ve been on for more than an hour, tell me to go get a life!
Here are four simple reasons I like There better (pun intended) than SL.
- By far the #1 reason is voice chatting. You can have real-time voice chat with multiple people. If they are to your left –well, guess what…its in your left speaker. If they run around your social group yelling “I need coffee” –yup, thats what you hear as well. Very cool and much deeper social interaction possible with this kind of communication. But even if you don’t choose to go the voice route, the text bubble-system is very cool as well. The only down side is that they float up in a big conversation rather quickly —but there is also the ‘chat history’. In fairness, this real-time voice chat only comes once you pay the small one-time fee of $10, but I really think its worth it…
- Much smoother graphics…perhaps it was my settings; perhaps There has a little less rich graphics than SL, I’m not sure –but the ride was much smoother.
- The very cool vehicles you can ride around in –hoverboards, jet-packs, space-ships, 4×4 jeeps, you name it. Each one rides differently –some fast, some slow; some solo, some with friends; some earth-born, some sky-worthy. Imagine cruising over a new virtual world in a hovercraft while talking in real time with some friends. Yeah, it is cool and it is addictive. I’ve spent more time this last week than I had planned on spending, and I usually get bored quick with this kind of thing.
- There is PG13 and much more condusive to real converastion and fun, while SL tends to always drift towards XXX stuff and tasteless content like teens trying to update their avatar with a strap on dildo. Whatever.
My avatar’s first day ‘There’ (I did have to pay a couple of bucks for the clothes, so I wasn’t stuck with the Newbie Moonie standards.)
Anyway, just a quick and dirty review to get the word out to all my millions of blog subscribers. Maybe I’ll write some more later.
Oh yeah, and btw, I will be hosting a “Wonderosity Live” show using the TalkShoe client on Thursday at 2:00 –so if you can, come join the chat!
Tags: there, there.com, second life, 2nd life, virtual worlds, wonderosity, geekingoutloud, tech review, talkshoe
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