I’m trying to see if there is any reference to LL and their developers not doing *research*? I would be very surprised and shocked if this was the case. I would go further by saying I cannot believe you think there is no strategic planning within a company with $500million revenue? That Sir, is mind Gobbledygook.
Easy to knock LL, the reality is they’re market leaders and represent about 98% of the entire commercial activity. The real interesting thing, of the research I have done, over 90% of all commercial projects are within their platform.
I suggest we also look at the research and opinion of Gartner, ThinkBalm, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Forterra, ON24, Teleplace… all of which have excellent research. If that’s not enough, I have a 40 books on my shelves, 30 of those books relate Second Life projects.
As for your statement about *lack of features and cost implementation*?
Surely this is what Dusan is saying!? Isn’t this what he also saying is starting to happen? Dusan seems to be simply saying, we need to move away from the platform, by building hybrid solutions and products that deliver real returns. He also points to solution being developed like Immersive Workspaces. A great start, we need more stories and solutions like this.
We do though need to see competitors, I’m not talking about OpenSim. We need another standard, one that will give us alternatives. Which in turn will promote competition etc.
The interesting thing about Google, they open new product lines and close them just as a quickly. Lets see if Google keep this one alive long enough to gain *traction*.
Peter Stephens
Research Analyst
Thinking World Partners, Inc.
There are two major failure modes for virtual worlds: lack of compelling features beyond existing tools and the cost of implementation.
Things like Google Wave have the potential to turn every web browser into a hybrid communication tool: a tool that integrates the immediacy of IM with the persistence and sharing of collaborative documents and the ubiquity of web pages.
There are still many stumbling blocks: is the product over hyped for what it will actually deliver, will people be willing to give up privacy to have an external host provide the service (and if not, will the spin up costs of a private federated server in time and effort slow adoption)? Nonetheless, it has a lot less friction than virtual world costs.
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i cross posted a recap of the vrworlds show of 2003– BL- before Linden.
the old class was lost because” they wanted to build 3d for everyone” in 1996. but alas- not everyone had a need or wanted it….no problem to solve..EXCEPT for more immersive games/entertainment, which was alex st johns continued pitch. he was 90% correct.
so now its back to “verticals”, but vertical markets need SPECIFIC solutions to take account of their SPECIFIC business needs….
they didnt exist in web3d offerings of 2003 and the initiative died., and i still see very few of the 2009 platforms offering more…so far. Some have some good things to offer, but its like before, some wanted from column Am some from column B and you cant mix vendors without a 1 million dollar internal dev project request.
not that immersive 3d wont consume all web media, it soon will, just as TV consumed all before it. and soon in a few decades reading a print newspaper in vr lounge chair in a vr house, will be commonplace…
but itll take the seamless 2d to 3d cross platform browser, an open standard format with specific DRM and a mu server that can run anywhere and connect to a credit card.
No one offers it. though each seperate venture builds a piece and goes to the trade shows, year after year, decade after decade….millions spent after millions.
as to the google wave….it has a long way to go before it can answer the past question “why do i want a computer in my house?”
and the answer is almost never “recipe lists” .:)
symbiosis evolved as part of natural media..im not so sure the mediated ways of the web techbiz have gotten to it yet.
Time Warner/ AOL was a poster child for the symbiote that wouldnt be.:)
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