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the leapfrog — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:21:00 -0800

Thanks to Jason Kincaid over at TechCrunch for reviewing the JLI beta! That’s a nice thing to wake up to on a Monday morning.

Writes Jason: “Canadian-based Leap In Entertainment thinks it can do what Google couldn’t, and has just launched a brand new virtual world that might actually stand a chance.”

Go check out the review here.

Debutante week roundup

the leapfrog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:17:00 -0700

   Woman: Larry, you must meet our daughter, the debutante. She just came out.
   Rodney Dangerfield: Whoa! Put her back in, she’s not done yet!
                 - The Simpsons, “Burns, Baby Burns“

Thank you so much to Consiliera (“No learning curve at all – anybody can create anything with it in minutes”), DigitalFemme, WangXiang, UniversVirtuels, Mal Burns (“This is what we consider closest to an actual metaverse “inside” the web”), The DDM Collective, Mondes virtuels, and everyone who’s taken some time to embed a space or comment on their site or blog during our debutante week. We’re so grateful to you, and we’ve learned a lot from your comments already – the good, the bad, and the ugly. :)

Watching the tweets, friendfeeds, and other microreviews our first users have pointed us to, we’ve learned a lot. We’re getting a heartwarming response from some quarters:

Exploring Just Leap In and um … wow.”

Having a first try on Just Leap In… at least it works, unlike certain Google-owned products I could mention.

Spending some quality time with “Just Leap In” this morning. Frustrated by movement controls already, but VERY cool.

Gaby Bekwitz a.k.a. Consiliera writes:

One week old, no customizable avatars, no multi-user fuctionality yet, but the graphics are excellent, fast, with realistic lighting, physics and much more…and it all runs in any normal web browser as a lightweight plugin. No learning curve at all – anybody can create anything with it in minutes.

Mal Burns writes:

This is what we consider closest to an actual metaverse “inside” the web. Although we believe the web will ultimately be viewed from “inside” a metaverse on your desktop, “Just leap In” displays the graphic wealth of places like Second Life even at this alpha stage.

At the same time, we’ve got a ways to go. We’ve seen several comments from users who aren’t running our supported/majority browsers (Firefox 2/3 and IE 7 on Windows and Mac) and aren’t getting a good experience – or any experience! We know that you’ll be waiting for multiuser avatar support – we’ll be putting more controllable avatars into the live beta within a few short weeks. And we know that at least a couple of you are seeing 3D hardware issues, and we’ll be working with you to sort them out in the next Player updates. Like any early beta, we really appreciate your patience.

On the visual side, we’re basking in having a bit of a Flickr presence out there. And that YouTube video is still pointing in the right direction.

Until later!

o_O leapfrog

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