The Immersive Internet opens the door to things simply not possible using alternative methods and at the same time Immersive and Engaged go hand-in-hand. It’s hard not to like it (or agree) when Driver concludes “While the adoption of the Immersive Internet in the enterprise is still in the seeding stage as of late 2008, it will become mainstream within five years. By this mean that it will have a significant installed base within Global 1000 companies and large public sector organizations and at least a few sucessful large-scale implementations.”
Brent November 20, 2008 in: News
As a Gen-Xer (admittedly close to the baby boomer edge) my first introduction to web.alive technology was in January of 2008. Initial impression; “this is cool stuff, but can you actually sell it”. As an opportunity presented itself to join the team shortly thereafter I was faced with a career defining moment especially with the [...]
The interest level in web.alive is heating up as we watch a world in an extreme economic crunch while teams are more diversified and globally extended. Recently Chief Architect Arn Hyndman sat down with the Ottawa Citizen to discuss the vision behind web.alive a little more thoroughly. You can read the story at http://tinyurl.com/proj-chainsaw
Paul Mcdonagh-Smith - Director Learning Applications
Monday morning, Central London - It could have been something Arn and the guys had put together. Standing on the steps outside the conference centre I was looking through the rain at Westminster Abbey in front of me, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament (of HP Sauce fame) on [...]
A while back, Christian Renaud posted an interesting question “Riddle me this…” on his blog:
Fast forward to the office of the future, the virtual office version. You have packetized spatial audio. You have user created content. You have streaming video and powerpoints and presence information. You have ever-changing mixes of synchronous and asynchronous traffic types all over walls and tables of your virtual headquarters. This is much more bandwidth intensive than Warcraft, and if you are having a staff or funding meeting, the voice/video latency is arguably more critical than simple ‘the dragon killed you before you hit it with your sword’ telemetry data […]
There is a really great article in the London Telegraph on the rate of change we are seeing with respect to the Internet today and specifically on the move from the 2.0 version of the web that we are starting to take for granted to the web 3.0.
Two of the facts that jumped out at [...]
After the Nortel acquisition of Diamondware, many people both inside the company (specifically on the web.alive team) and outsiders praised the inclusion of 3D audio in web.alive. We could not be more proud of including this great technology in our solution and wanted to share with you a sample of just what 3D Audio is [...]
A concept that I’ve had a number of discussions with Arn and Andy Lippman about is real estate proximity. Second Life has done a great job of creating a world that enables virtual proximity - not just the core concept of avatar proximity, but in real estate.
Return on investment (ROI) is a legitimate question and one that I think everyone in the virtual world space struggles to answer with any amount of great accuracy. There is no doubt that virtual world collaboration and training provides clear benefits to business. You can draw a direct line to the costs associated with travel, [...]
