May 7th, 2010 by Caleb Booker
Four separate platforms got the nod of approval from the USDA recently:
- web.alive (recent AVAYA acquisition)
- Vastpark (wow, they’ve come a long way!)
- OLIVE (nice one guys, way to survive!)
- Teleplace (workspace, used to be named QWAQ)
This is just great to see. Not only are these four solid platforms completely worthy of the business, but it’s also a great response to the doom and gloom prophesy that so many were indulging in a few months ago. Welcome to the new workspace guys, it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Further reading:
Thanks for the links Joe.
May 4th, 2010 by Caleb Booker
Here’s a quick breakdown from the last month or two:
- Google Maps goes 3D – In-browser 3D is the holy grail of virtual spaces, always has been.
- Second Life users are angry at Linden Lab – In other news, spring came this year and summer could be next…
- OpenSim is becoming a serious contender – We always hoped it would, but did we expect it?
- ASSEMB’LIVE releases devkit – It’s getting even more awesome every day, worth a look. video
- web.alive releases a content development kit – looks like AVAYA is going ahead with development.
- Wonderland is alive and kicking – Project Wonderland became Open Wonderland, and they’re some shocking good.
- IMVU is a monster – $40 million coming in for 2010, and they’re hiring.
- Worlds.com and NCSoft lawsuit settled – … and I hope they got next to nothing the lousy thieves…
- Blue Mars hasn’t closed yet – I already own a copy of Final Fantasy XIII so I’m good, thanks.
- Apple is planning a virtual world store – After the idiotic iPad, I’ve zero sense of anticipation here…
- Second Life bigger than ever – Any speculation on my part as to why will result in a boring, boring debate… consumer PCs are generally fast enough now, that’s why.
- ProtonMedia, On24, and InXpo are all still doing big business
- Dozens of new government and private sector projects launched over the last few months for procedural training, prototyping, therapy, education, conferencing, etc…
Now you know.