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Posted by Steve Portigal | 15 Mar 2007
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Zync from Yahoo! Research Berkeley
is a plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger. Zync allows you to watch videos together with your friends, in sync and in real time. Instead of just IMing URLs and waiting for your friends to watch, Zync allows you to converse about a video (pausing, jumping back, and watching together with a friend). Both videos stay in sync. Sweet. :)
Here's technology that simultaneously addresses, comments on, and further propagates a shift in how we live: bowling alone, eating alone, watching viral videos alone.
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For the past couple of years, people have been using Second Life to view video in much the same way. It's especially well-suited to soldiers in Iraq who can "meet" family inside Second Life and watch something together. The immersion is *much* higher than using a 2D webpage and something as simple as knowing "where" someone is looking becomes a kind of body language.
This past week I spent time inside Second Life with others (mostly technologists and educators) watching live streaming video from SXSW Interactive.
With all the talk in design circles about "Experience" and "Identity", I see precious few IDers paying attention these technologies. Other than Philips' design team and a few others, I know of no others inside Second Life (or Kaneva, or...). I guess until the shapes look sufficiently pleasing, most designers aren't interested. Unfortunate.