IBM at the NRF
Does your avatar know how to make actual money? Bernadette Duponchel’s does. She was recently at the National Retail Federation conference with the rest of her team, presenting IBM’s take on virtual worlds for the fashion design industry.
This is the second consecutive year IBM has demonstrated the use of virtual worlds at the NRF. The brief demo highlights the benefits of real-time collaborative design, short feedback loops when tweaking materials and costs, and even pre-selling the item before it is physically manufactured.
February 11th, 2008 at 18:58
Why the synergies between production and 3D virtual worlds isn’t being aggressively investigated by all industries still escapes me. Thanks for this.
February 14th, 2008 at 08:04
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February 20th, 2008 at 18:27
[...] Bernadette Duponchel was recently at the National Retail Federation conference with the rest of her team, presenting IBM’s take on virtual worlds for the fashion design industry. This is the second consecutive year IBM has demonstrated the use of virtual worlds at the NRF. The brief demo highlights the benefits of real-time collaborative design, short feedback loops when tweaking materials and costs, and even pre-selling the item before it is physically manufactured. Read more at Eightbar. [...]
October 9th, 2008 at 19:53
[...] excited for the team that have been working so hard on this from both companies. We reported on it a while back when it appeared on the street which may have not shown teh full extent of the emerging partnership. Well as its out on the wires [...]