Another prediction here at Social Strategist has proved true. From my “Platforms of the Web”:http://socialstrategist.com/2007/07/02/building-the-futures-foundations-platforms-of-the-web post in July:
Google Earth already is capable of rendering real-world buildings in 3D. People skilled in image manipulation are taking thousands of photos of a location and combining them to create a full 3D view of it. What happens when we take these creations and make them into a virtual representation within a Second Life-like world[...]
“CNET News reports that Multiverse Network”:http://www.news.com/Google-tools-to-power-virtual-worlds/2100-1043_3-6212325.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news, a virtual world developer and competitor to Linden Lab’s Second Life, has partnered with Google to provide virtual world builders recreations of real-world terrain and structures.
With my “YouTube & Adobe partnership prediction proved true”:http://socialstrategist.com/2007/06/18/youtube-adobe-partnership-it-happened as well, I wonder if maybe someone at Google is listening to me…
