Nice summary/obituary (?) of Vivaty, the social web-embedded 3D world that launched 9 hours before Google's "Lively"

Nice summary/obituary (?) of Vivaty, the social web-embedded 3D world that launched 9 hours before Google's "Lively"

Just hours after Vivaty’s launch Google came with Lively - another web-embedded 3D world/3D enhanced chat room. Lively has fewer features and cartoon-like characters appealing to teens more then adults, but since it’s Google (think ads, reach and world domination) it could be that Vivaty’s days are already over. Anyway: here are a few interesting facts from the Techcrunch article: “It is deep linking into the 3D Web. Since they have regular URLs, each 3D scene can be linked to from the regular Web. Even objects within each room can each have their own URL. (…) While Vivaty is hosting all the rooms to begin with, its technology is architected to become distributed, like the Web itself. Vivaty Scenes are created using standard Javascript and PHP, and can be hosted on standard Web servers.(…)