{"id":92,"date":"2007-01-27T18:38:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/welcome-to-google-planet-is-google-building-a-virtual-world\/"},"modified":"2007-01-27T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T18:46:37","slug":"welcome-to-google-planet-is-google-building-a-virtual-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/welcome-to-google-planet-is-google-building-a-virtual-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Google Planet?  is Google building a virtual world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/technology\/2007\/01\/welcome-to-google-planet.html\">this article in New Scientist<\/a>. Rumours are circulating that Google is developing an online Virtual world, much like <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>. I suspected this might be the case when they acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.com\/\">SketchUp<\/a> last year which allows users to contribute 3D buildings for others to see which can be overlayed on Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Read the New Scientist article for more information &#8230; but I&#8217;ll definitly be keeping an eye on this. Google has made a habit out of taking on very established markets and re-defining them. I do hope though that Google, if they go down this road, improve on the metaphor, I really hope they dont end up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/technology\/2007\/01\/virtual-geo-politics.html\">cheesing people<\/a> off like SL has \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this article in New Scientist. Rumours are circulating that Google is developing an online Virtual world, much like Second Life. I suspected this might be the case when they acquired SketchUp last year which allows users to contribute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/welcome-to-google-planet-is-google-building-a-virtual-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[387,385],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-technology","tag-google","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}