Virtual worlds colliding
Written by John Moravec on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 9:31
If you’re new here and like what you read, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.
Thank you for visiting!
Two interesting pieces of news emerged on virtual worlds:
- At the Virtual Worlds Conference, IBM and Linden Labs announced plans to develop a set of open standards that would allow avatars to traverse from one virtual environment to another.
- Multiverse Network is building tools that will allow virtual world developers to access and incorporate elements from Google’s rapidly expanding warehouse of 3D models, based on real objects.
This appears to be trending toward an open standards-based grid, which allows for the rapid development of virtual worlds based on the real world. As society increasingly prefers virtual reality over “real” reality, what can impacts in education, the workplace, and other knowledge-producing environments can we expect from this de-realizing?
Related posts
Post a comment
Category: Technology
