We don't expect most of you to sit through all 25 minutes of this PSHome walk-through, but let the video buffer and give it a quick skim. Our impressions? Sony's online Sims/Second Life clone looks fantastic. And embedded multimedia like games and video streaming look excellent, included with some interesting effects like walking up to an arcade cabinet and playing a game...without going full screen.

We'll see how smoothly Home operates when more users are sharing server space, but for now we're remaining extremely optimistic about Sony's newest experiment. It's just different enough from the offerings of Microsoft and Nintendo and similar software like Second Life that it could be a little incredible. What do you think?

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