I look at it this way… Secondlife is a type of media, and media is what ABC have been doing for 75 years.
You get a jeans company, car company or someone else in and suddenly, they have to deal with something they don't personally handle… sure they have the bucks to put something together, but it doesn't mean the people they pay to do it “get it” anymore than the company paying for it.

ABC have people who understand the concept, the problems, limitations and social issues.
and they have the benefit of having friends in secondlife who still are, very keen to help where required.

Wolfie!

I look at it this way… Secondlife is a type of media, and media is what ABC have been doing for 75 years.
You get a jeans company, car company or someone else in and suddenly, they have to deal with something they don't personally handle… sure they have the bucks to put something together, but it doesn't mean the people they pay to do it “get it” anymore than the company paying for it.

ABC have people who understand the concept, the problems, limitations and social issues.
and they have the benefit of having friends in secondlife who still are, very keen to help where required.

Wolfie!

http://www.personalizemedia.com/a-few-lives-lef...

As far as your assertions on censorship of your comments, I'll once again repeat that in this site's near two year history, one comment (from someone in Europe) was not published due to it being defamatory. No other comments have ever been prevented from appearing beyond the usual spam filter false positives which I scan for regularly (we use Akismet on this site).

However, even though a pioneering learning curve has been successfully realised by many commercial organisations, my personal views gained from the research study is that organisations are still very limited with their exploration of VR capabilities. Most of the activity was trying to mirror real world offerings. Whilst there is merit in replicating reality using virtual building tools, I believe that the potential of VR technology offers so much more. VR is essentially an extremely powerful visualisation tool. It provides the ability to build visions that users can immerse in and experience, which offers a tremendous opportunity. An inherent human capability is to use visualisation techniques to achieve goals and outcomes. Ask any high achiever, or acclaimed athlete, of how they build success, and I am sure the concept of 'visualisation' will be associated. A success vision is created, and the work is done step by step to realize that vision. My point is this. The visualisation power of VR could be instrumental in shaping visionary goals/outcomes/solutions to all sorts of situations, including humanity's greatest problems. For example, what would human equality 'look like', what would a sustainable earth 'look like', what would 'world peace' look like? Collectively trying to build a vision of these scenarios using VR capabilities could provide the roadmaps for eventual real world solutions. It also means working together and pooling ideas and resources, not competing as separate entities for individual profit or gain, but rather, collectively gaining some powerful potential to move humanity forward. It's a big idea I know, and we need 'vision makers' to lead the way. It would be great to start a virtual global campaign, called something like 'Vision Quest’ that unites individuals, communities, educational bodies, United Nations, and corporations, to build visionary solutions for the future. Now that's a success formula!

Kim MacKenzie
PhD Candidate
QUT Faculty of Business
Brisbane
K3.mackenzie@qut.edu.au