Google Uses Flex for Lively UI?
Wed, 2008-07-09 08:50 — mikepotter
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The blogosphere is all abuzz over Google's launch of Lively, an in browser virtual world, similar to Second Life.
However, the bigger news for RIA developers, and especially Flex developers, is the technology that they used to build it. From this Flickr screenshot, it appears as though Google is using Flex to develop the UI for Lively. This assumption is also supported by the minimum system requirements, which list Flash [Player] 9 or higher. (Flex applications can only run in Flash Player 9 or higher because of the new VM requirements.)
Since Lively only runs on Windows machines (and not in VMWare) I can't personally test this out - can anyone verify the Flickr screenshot?
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Yup. I saw the Flex loading
Yup.
I saw the Flex loading screen too. I immediatly recognized it and asked myself: this gotta be flex, because why should the copy that loading screen?
Yes, this seems to be the
Yes, this seems to be the case. There's even more evidence: when you check the installation directory there's a /flex directory with tons of SWFs inside it. Maybe they use Papervision for the 3D stuff as well?
I confirmed too, the flex
I confirmed too, the flex source. I have a screen capture with the flex "signature" when I tried to configure a room.
some more things I noticed:
some more things I noticed: they seem to use the F-IN-BOX dll (http://www.f-in-box.com/) to embed Flash Player 9 within the Lively client. The 3D Engine used seems to be Gamebryo (or based on it).
I could see the loading
I could see the loading window as well - checked it on my windows test machine after reading your post.
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