One look at Steve Hoffman and Eric Hayashi‘s bio and you can’t help but to be impressed. Their bios include Vivendi Universal Games, Virgin Interactive, Infospace, Hasbro Interactive, Sega and even Atari.
So what did Steve and Eric do with all that experience? What was the culmination of this vast interactive knowledge? In 2007, Steve and Eric joined forces with Naomi Kokubo and co-founded ROCKETON, a new type of multiplayer social experience that spans the entire web.
Instead of having to go to a separate site or use a specific application like Second Life, ROCKETON turns the entire Internet into a virtual world for browser based avatars. Think of ROCKETON like Second Life + PMOG with a twist of Facebook and a dash of StumbleUpon. It’s a Web 2.0 evolutional twist on virtual reality.
MethodShop was lucky enough to get some time with Steve and Eric and grilled them pretty hard about ROCKETON. A link to the full interview is below. Enjoy.
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One look at Steve Hoffman and Eric Hayashi‘s bio and you can’t help but to be impressed. Their bios include Vivendi Universal Games, Virgin Interactive, Infospace, Hasbro Interactive, Sega and even Atari.
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