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• 07.01.08
  The Year Ahead for Virtual Worlds: And the Children Shall Lead Business in Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Virtual World Platforms | (1)

  A post over at Linux News summarizes the potential of virtual worlds and offers predictions for the year ahead, among them: * Increasing stickiness and trial conversion rates remain top priorities for virtual world operators. * There will be many experiments with platform interoperability and universal avatars. Several efforts are already underway, including IBM and Linden Labs' collaboration in pushing an open standard and the China Recreation District initiative to build a virtual platform that can host millions of avatars. * 3-D virtual worlds will become more user friendly and compelling. The author relies like many other observers and venture guys on the kids ...

  Tagged: IBM, linden labs, Linux, Virtual worlds
  

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