Playstation Home / Annabeth Robinson

A message in from J Ross Nicoll at St Andrews University in Scotland. You can reply to him directly at: jrn2005 (@) cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

I’ve been looking at this. From what I can tell initially, there’s a development kit available to PS3 developers (great), but being a PS3 developer means getting a €7,500 PS3 dev kit (not so great). Querying locally to see if anyone would object to a project to recreate an archeological site in Home (we’ve got all the models already, and a version in Second Life, so makes for an obvious comparative study), and hope to approach Sony before the end of the year.

I’d love to know if anyone else is doing anything. Also, if you have any ideas where we could get funding for hardware

http://www.scedev.net/home/ is the URL for people to express interest to Sony, for reference.

Annabeth Robinson is a regular contributer to the VWW surveys and a well-known SL developer in UK academia. She also has a beautiful-looking personal website that, for academics with virtual world interests, is well worth a look through. And she is one of the academics having a good exploration of what Playstation Home has to offer. She has a set of pictures on Flickr, of which here are a couple:

Lakeside Apartment in PS3 Home

Making a furniture den for the Bears