Sorry it has taken me so long to get this up on my Blog, but for some reason my internet hates Blogger.com, just like it hates the NOW! well here it is anywho!!!
The new technology which I have decided to write about is Playstations online community called Home. Its is currently in its closed Beta version but when it is fully up and running it will be a free down load for Playstation Network users where you will be able to create your own avatar and home (call HomeSpace) to live in. Users can then buy new clothes and furnishings for their avatar, and will eventually be able to buy them bigger apartments and maybe even design their own furnishings. It is very second life-ish, however in Home, one can invite people over to their apartments where you can share anything that you have on your hard disk drive. You do this by, in the case of a video or film, sit down in front of the persons virtual Sony TV, everyone can then watch it full screen on their TV at home. For pictures you o over to a virtual picture frame and can scan through the persons pictures on their HDD.
Outside of the HomeSpace their will be a lot more to do such as; meet up with friends to chat, either by text or through headsets, go into playing multiplayer on an online game with friends, play other types of games with friends or anyone else such as bowling and chess. Home will also have a virtual cinema where people will be able to go and sit down next to other people’s avatars and watch a film that has been released in DVD/ Blu-ray, they will be able to make the film full screen so it will be just like watching a DVD at home. There will be shopping malls for you to take your avatar into, in which you will be able to make you avatar try on clothes and trainers, which you can then pay for and get the real items delivered to your door.
Personally when I first heard about all of the features Home will have, I was amazed, I mean it is pretty cleaver. However thinking about it, is it not really going a step too far? I’m sure the security on it will be fine, as Playstation have said that they will block anybodies account and IP address if they break the rules, so it should be a safe place for people of any age, but surely some people won’t have a proper life because of it. Fair enough meeting up with someone who lives really far away to chat and watch things, but I bet the majority of people who use this will live a few houses down, or a 10 minute walk away. I think it will be fine to use every once in a while, but for some people I can see it nearly becoming their life, almost as much as World of Warcraft or Second Life, which personally I cannot see as being a good thing to happen to society.
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