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SceneCaster is a new company that lets you create your own mini-virtual space on your website. This article writes up what the author considers its main features, and they’re pretty good ones, including the integration of Google’s 3D Warehouse, which will likely mean higher-res models in your scene. There is still so little known about SceneCaster, though, that I almost hate to try to make comparisons between it and SL, but here we go:

Read the main points on that article, then return. Got it? Okay. SL’s main selling point is its user-creation tools, which SceneCaster does not have. Let’s say you want to use SceneCaster for marketing. If you’re using the 3D Warehouse for your objects, what are the chances any of those objects will include your product in 3D form? If they don’t, what are you gaining by having your own 3D space?

Secondly, the social aspect of virtual spaces. You will go to where your friends are, no matter what the space they inhabit looks like. Hi-res 3D models or not, if your friends are there, you’re there. This is as old as IRC, which still exists and is still popular, despite its continued lack of graphics. So is SceneCaster really any sort of threat to SL? Chime in, O Learned Audience.

(Via webpronews)

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