Rich Tehrani has a very interesting post about Nortel's foray into virtualized business meetings. Think SecondLife virtual world meets business world... Rich participated in a virtual world demo with Nortel where they showed him web.alive. This business-oriented virtual...
For Sony, Home is where the future of gaming is -- or where they would like it to be. In its battle for the hearts and minds of gamers, Sony is developing a robust social-networking component to its PlayStation 3 console....
An increasing number of industry players will help push 3D virtual worlds into a sustainable industry, reaching 33 million registered users by 2013, according to Virtual Worlds: the Internet of Avatars. This new report from Parks Associates details the evolution...
Anybody remember the big noise about 3D virtual worlds and how they are going to change our lives forever? Well, that may still be true today, but how about the big time scam -- and big time bucks lost -- with...
Back in October I discussed VoIP in SecondLife and joked about the need for e911 emergency services within this virtual world. Well, according to CNet, in the next several months, "SecondLife avatars may find their long-awaited voice, said...
Not to be outdone by the Xbox 360 online community, Sony is launching its own world for the PlayStation 3. According to this report, it looks like PlayStation Home will take SecondLife and sent it places that it has...
I blogged a bit yesterday about SecondLife and now, for those who are interested, have found a very revealing report about how not to make money in that virtual world. Actually, apparently many think there is money to be made,...
Maybe there is something to this SecondLife thing after all. While IBM seems to think this is the next big thing (according to this report, many other companies are going their own way with bits and pieces of the "big...
On Wednesday, Vivox announced their "one million free minutes" promotion which enables the 3D virtual world "SecondLife" users to speak to each other via their phones using PC VoIP to landline termination (PC-to-PSTN). Natively SecondLife doesn't support PC-to-PSTN,...