Immersive environments and the enterprise: new report
Erica and Sam Driver from ThinkBalm have released a new report. Titled The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide, the focus is obviously virtual environments suitable for business applications. For those not aware of ThinkBalm, they have a growing stable of reports on the state of play in virtual worlds industry, particularly from a business perspective.
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The reverse argument for virtual worlds in the enterprise
With thanks to Tateru Nino for the heads up, this machinima just about perfectly encapsulates the tug-of-war within the enterprise in regards to adoption of virtual worlds as a collaborative tool. It’s an incisive piece that strips bare some of the stereotypes and barriers put forward by business as ‘arguments’ against utilising virtual worlds in [...]
Surfing the virtual world hype
Riding the hype wave of a new technology with a “world-first” isn’t exactly unusual. We’ve seen this a lot with Second Life, right?
But there’s actually other, more interesting lessons to be learned.
Firstly, the newspapers and magazines don’t really check if you’re first, so if you want you can just copy what someone else is doing. [...]
Telstra responds to questions on Second Life withdrawal
As mentioned yesterday, Telstra have announced their withdrawal from Second Life, and there’s been no shortage of discussion on it around the blogosphere.
We’ve had some passionate comments and a couple of emails from residents quite upset at the decision.
I took the opportunity to put some questions to Telstra’s media spokesman, Craig Middleton, to [...]
Telstra retreats from Second Life
As reported today in the mainstream press, Telstra have announced their retreat from involvement with Second Life.
As the Australian business with the largest investment in Second Life by far, Telstra’s withdrawal potentially has a large impact on the local case for involvement of business in virtual worlds. More importantly, there are many hundreds of [...]
Interview – Simon Newstead, CEO of Frenzoo
Back in May, we covered Frenzoo, a fashion-centric world with a lot of promise. Since that time, Frenzoo has continue to grow and has received further funding to continue its development.
CEO Simon Newstead is an expatriate Australian based in Hong Kong, and I took the opportunity to get some insight into Frenzoo’s progress and [...]
Linden Lab launches Second Life Enterprise beta today
Linden Lab will announce today that their second “work offering”, Second Life Enterprise, is entering an open beta period, prior to release. The preliminary beta for the Second Life Enterprise has been running since April this year; the open beta program will run through Q4 this year, and general availability will be announced during [...]
