Google Moving Towards Virtual Earth?
January 25th, 2007 by pamela
Do those brainy people at Google ever take a break? Every day there seems to be another rumour or press release confirming that they are up to something new. Well today it’s Google Earth’s turn.
According to an employee from Second Life investor company Benchmark Capital, “Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la Second Life.”
This isn’t the first time this rumour has surfaced, last month at CNN Money Business 2.0 magazine discussed the launch of SketchUp, a 3-D modelling program which Google is encouraging developers to use to build layers on Google Earth.
At the moment avatars aren’t available, but it seems that it’s only a matter of time before they are, allowing you to populate a virtual planet Earth.
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