I loved this video by Botgirl Questi that i saw on Hamlet Au's site. It seems Blue Mars has a new version that lets you download a Real Life map on Google Earth street level. Then you can load it and walk around on it.
Botgirl, like a smart ass, did a video of her walking around Linden Labs!!!
You can read Hamlet's story after the break.
Blue Mars Launches Light Client for Mac/PC With Google Street View Feature to Put Avatars in RL Locations
By Hamlet Au
My former colleagues at Avatar Reality just put out a new light client for Blue Mars for Mac and PC (as I mentioned was coming a couple months ago) and it's now available in Beta -- click here to download it. Botgirl Questi recently did, and below, shows off what looks like its coolest feature: Integration with Google Street View, so you can chat with several other avatars in real world settings. Ms. Questi chose the oddest, most oddly appropriate location.
The client is under 50 megs (much smaller than the original client, which was over a couple hundred), and is designed to run on pretty much any laptop (though your mileage may vary.) It's integrated with the larger full client Blue Mars experience, so you can access your pre-existing friends list and inventory from it too. As a former consultant and ongoing pal of the Avatar team (past and present), I'm quite biased of course, but overall I think it's a good direction for client-dependent 3D worlds to take. Will be interesting to see how it compares to the light web/tablet client Linden Lab announced was in development last weekend.
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