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RSS virtual worldsVirtual worlds to boost telcos
News Having seen web 2.0 reduce them to transport pipes, telcos may yet have a chance to steal a march on other service providers with the advent of web 3.0 - a new era heralded by the arrival of virtual worlds such as Second Life. [07 Dec 2006]
Virtual worlds meet real life laws
News Businesses setting up outposts in virtual worlds such as Second Life may find they still have plenty of real world legal minefields to navigate. Second Life is the best known of a number of virtual worlds that are attracting a lot of interest from... [15 May 2007]
Virtual Worlds Join Multiple Player Gaming With the World of Business Training
White Paper It's an area their researchers call "virtual worlds," and it promises to deliver training in a way that leads more quickly to the kinds of behaviors organizations need from their employees in order to execute strategy better than their competitors. [13 May 2004]
Virtual worlds? Get a life, say silicon.com readers
News You may be able to fly around chatting to giant rabbits or battling trolls but the lure of virtual worlds such as Second Life is not as strong - for silicon.com readers at least - as you might think. However, a sizeable minority of silicon.com... [19 Jun 2007]
Video: Virtual worlds - hype or reality for businesses?
Video silicon.com's Steve Ranger chats with a panel of experts about what virtual worlds such as Second Life mean to businesses. Is it all hype? Or should companies be getting involved? If so how? Steve is joined by Rupert Goodwins, technology editor of... [28 Jun 2007]
CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News I think virtual worlds are a huge untapped market currently suffering from a lack of business-savvy input. Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere Companies are now realising they can sell their products twice - once in reality and once in... [16 Oct 2007]
Real and virtual worlds combine in India
News This futuristic vision is almost here says Indian outsourcer Satyam as it unveiled a technology to blend the real and virtual worlds at its R&D labs in Chennai in southern India. You open a door, pass through and close it behind you - nothing... [25 Apr 2008]
Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds
Photo BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. Matthew Brotherton, project manager at the Applied Technology Centre in BT's chief technology office, told... [13 Sep 2007]
Collaborating in Virtual Worlds
White Paper Christian is currently Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments for Cisco. Hear him share his views on the importance of a communal office space (either real or virtual), the historical role of real-life objects in communication, the... [16 Mar 2008]
Virtual and Augmented Environments: Blending the Virtual and Physical Worlds for Business Benefits
White Paper This paper talks about the business benefits of Virtual and Augmented Environments. Augmented and virtual realities no longer belong solely to “gamers. Marketplace trends and enabling technologies have recently emerged that allow us to capitalize... [08 May 2004]
Roo Reynolds - Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds
White Paper Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It's about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services. By open the presentation means technically open with appropriate APIs but also, more importantly, socially open, with... [06 Oct 2007]
Banks to battle for orcs' gold?
News Once thought of as an escape from real world hassles such as money, virtual worlds - such as World of Warcraft (WoW) and Second Life - are beginning to operate just like real-world economies. These virtual worlds have enough members spending enough... [23 May 2006]
Philip Rosedale
AS Profile Visualising virtual worlds More than just games, these worlds blur the lines between real and imagined - residents create lasting relationships and outfits such as the BBC stage virtual versions of real events there. [25 Sep 2006]
Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere
News Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google's online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse... [09 Oct 2007]
Five virtual world security worries for business
News Companies need to think about security and risk management before they get too excited about virtual worlds, according to analyst group Gartner. The risks businesses face as a result of getting involved in virtual worlds can be significant... [09 Aug 2007]
