By now I assume that those of you with an interest in the virtual world topics I cover here have read about the announcement made at the opening of last week’s Virtual World Conference and Expo; Fall 2007: Linden Lab and IBM have joined forces to push “avatar portability”. Those of you surprised by this move either haven’t generally been paying attention or haven’t been reading my posts (e.g.
Second Life avatar portability avatars IBM Linden Lab csven open standardsWell, there’s been so much buzz about the possibility Google is creating a multi-user virtual world it’s kind of hard to miss. What’s equally hard for me to miss is the apparent surprise being registered by so many people. Hello? Are Google and Microsoft investing time and money in creating 3D representations of the Earth so that we can simply be impressed? so that we can download their applications and wander around them in social isolation like some modern version of The Omega Man… minus vampires?
csven Qwaq news virtual worlds Koinup Google Gaia Kaneva Microsoft Second Life Linden Lab CroquetWhen I heard this past weekend that ABC News was going to be doing a series on the future of the workplace, my first thought was of my old virtual office in Second Life (reLink). My second thought was of the new mobile workforce that’s congregating at coffee shops around the country. My third thought was of Croquet and related news (e.g. the recent sale of 3DSolve to Lockheed Martin).
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