Quick Link: New England B.B. Vouches for SL
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The New England Business Bulletin recently published a primer on how virtual training spaces, and 3D worlds in general, are being used by corporations and are one of the growth areas in this recession.
The article cites a number of corporations that are using Second Life as a training playground: IBM (which the author's note have saved in the hundreds of thousands of dollars from virtual training), Michelin, and Xerox, among others. Scott Ahrens, a UMass Dartmouth professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, notes that there are three main areas where Second Life is being used.
"It ...