Identities

on hearing about the online 3D environments, and creating your own avatars, it made me think of Playstation 3's new software known as Playstation Home.

Playstation Home is an online 3D environment in which you can communicate with friends or strangers in the virtual world built for PS3 owners. In this world you can design a character to resemble yourself and go around the town to buy new things for you house and play mini games around the city. This is very similar to the secondlife 3D online environment.


This is a screen shot of people in a group having a chat on Playstation home, it also seems that some of them are dancing. Speech bubbles pop up above your character when you wish to communicate with others.


I think that this software is great on terms of individuality, when creating your chararcter you can edit the physical appearance to a very detailed degree, you can, if made right, look alot like yourself. The lack in choice of clothing and accessories can be fixed by going into town to shop for new clothes, I haven't tried out that function yet, but soon will. apart from appearance, all characters created have set movements, not much else you can change.

you can check other players information althoguh it is only very brief due to laws on not exposing too much personal details etc. This mostly tells others about games you've played and achievements you've made, at the end of the day, it is a gaming environment.

more to come soon...