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"Sony is launching a social network for PS3 users called Playstation Home, according to news coming out of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today.  The network is a 3D virtual world similar to Second Life, says Engadget, except that it's much, much better.  \nFeatures include casual games embedded in-world, voice chat, and the ability to invite any user to play a Playstation game against you (games must be Playstation Network capable).  Another amazing feature: you can share music and videos from your library with other \"residents\" in the world, a feature that's drawing comparisons to YouTube.  Sharing of movie downloads will also be enabled at some point.  And of course there's all the usual Second Life stuff: dressing your avatar, creating an apartment and buying and selling stuff.  It's set to launch in beta in April.  (See the video below for a demo.)\nInitial reviews are extremely positive, despite the typical Sony-hatred that still floats around the blogosphere following their DRM/spyware screw up.  It won't rival Second Life directly, of course - the supported platforms are completely different - but there's definitely a sense that Sony has broken new ground with this concept.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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