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The Archives
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11.29.09A Virtual World with No People: Near Launches MondayA new virtual world launches Monday and will stagger the release of passcodes in order to deal with the mad rush of people who want to wander around a slightly better version of Google Earth in order to pick up coupons and look at shoes....or that's the impression given by the screen shots and videos of Near. The 3D shopping mall, er, world, was developed by NearGlobal and has Rivers Run Red as its creative partner. Rivers' prexy Justin Bovington, recently commenting on the launch of Second Life Enterprise, said that 3D content needs to be more relevant: ""It has be ...
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04.04.09Immersive Workspaces and Me: Remedy Partners with Rivers Run RedI'm a strong believer that virtual worlds are ready for business. While I'm hardly some kind of guru when it comes to selling technology, I remember selling Web-based education back when most of my clients didn't have e-mail, and didn't have a clue what a browser was. The Internet at the time was a technology far less mature than virtual worlds are now, and yet it made sense when tech was matched to business need. Clients were smart enough to be able to strip through both the hype, and the dire warnings about safety or inappropriate content or whatever else ...
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02.15.09The Forked Road: Virtual World Agencies and Where They WentA Californian, a Brit and a sheep walk into a bar. Not just any bar - but the hottest bar in town. The kind of bar with limos lined up out front and models handing out free samples of Red Bull to the people waiting in line. All three walk out some time later. The Californian says: "That bar was cool. It's just too bad it was so small. If the bar was bigger, and the people were more glamorous and global, it would make a mint." The Brit says: "Sure the bar was cool. But you don't make money with ...
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12.12.08Immersive Workspaces, Second Life and the State of My ConfusionIn 1997 I sold sponsorship for the above Web site. At the time, it was kind of like selling an ad for Wal*Mart in the pages of Playboy - not only did I need to explain what it was, I needed to tell them, well look, don't worry, your ad will be at the back, forget all the REST of the content, and for good measure we'll seal the ad off with a little lock or whatever and only approved folks will know that you've somehow been associated with, um, well, the rest of it. Maybe in my little corner of ...
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12.09.08Immersive Workspaces: Industry Standard ReviewThe Industry Standard has a review of Rivers Run Red's Immersive Workspaces application, and it gives a nice overview of the application itself. In my recent interview with Justin Bovington, we touched on the business use cases for the application, discussed the fact that it is hosted 'separate' from the main Second Life, or public Grid, the concept of 'living landscapes', amongst other topics. But the Standard fills out the other part of the story, which is the application itself: "Companies using Immersive Workspaces don't need to build anything -- the default product comes with a private corporate sim that includes a ...
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12.04.08It’s the World Calling: Rivers Run Red Launches Mobile Message Service for Immersive WorkspacesRivers Run Red has launched a mobile messaging service for its Immersive Workspaces(TM) application, allowing team members to post notes and messages from mobile devices. Called Mobile Ripple, it continues the effort to seamlessly join Web applications, virtual world environments, and now mobile technology. Immersive Workspaces, which was launched in partnership with Linden Lab, is an application built to help facilitate team collaboration, meetings, collaboration, and data visualization. It has been built on the same platform as Second Life, but stands alone from the "public" Grid. In my recent interview with Justin Bovington, CEO of Rivers Run Red, he noted that much ...
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11.14.08Educators Expand use of Second Life in OntarioThe IT Business site reports on the surge of teachers using Second Life to teach students at public and post-secondary schools. The article cites two people who are leading the charge into virtual worlds. One of these is Ken Hudson, managing director of the Virtual World Design Centre at Loyalist College in Belleville Ont. Here is a video of the program he developed that simulated a Border Services training program: According to Hudson, student grades improved dramatically after using the virtual world program. Continue Reading...
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11.08.08Are Virtual Worlds Ready for Business?: An Interview with Justin Bovington on Immersive Workspaces(TM)Immersive Workspaces(TM): Your Private Grid Awaits When you think business in virtual worlds you think brands. The wave of polished yet mostly empty sims that followed the press infatuation with Anshe Chung's mythic millions. And how the brands came and then slipped out into the night, the press flaks from Linden Lab and elsewhere calling the whole thing a brilliant experiment from which, heck, we learned a lot, that was the point really, this was never GOING to be the killer app of virtual worlds, keep your hat on folks, and by the way I have a sim for rent with ...
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11.03.08Immersive or Open Spaces: What Tier Are You In?Following an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Justin Bovington, CEO of Rivers Run Red, I came away encouraged: virtual worlds are ready for business, for collaboration, for all the stuff that I wish was a part of every work day - mind maps or quick collaborative team sessions with folks from around the world, 3D data visualizations, and social networking tools. And if you're a long-time resident of a virtual world you might know what I mean: it's just plain easier, more engaging, and 'deeper' when you connect with people, plan, share, and create in a virtual world. I mean, sure ...
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09.03.08Second Life SLim Client at Virtual World ConferenceLinden Lab will be showing off its new SLim client at the virtual world conference in LA today...or at least talking about the integration of the Vivox integrated voice chat system within the "light viewer". The Lab is pushing collaboration and education at the gathering of virtual hopefuls, with Rivers Run Red talking up its Immersive Workspaces, Global Kids, Northrop Grumman and Sand Diego State University all taking turns to talk up SL as the next great thing in virtual worlds. Er, new new old great. Or something. The slant of the conference is entertainment - this is Hollywood afterall. Stay tuned. ...
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