Sametime and Opensim
We dont normally do press release coverage here on eightbar, but as this is part of what is being announced here at VW08 it seemed to make sense to cover it.
IBM is integrating OpenSim and Sametime in a significantly deep way.
There is more on that here, and a video below
This fits nicely with the key themes of making virtual worlds part of the enterprise, not a place to escape to but that is integrated and absorbs services and produces services to an enterprise.
Its a different flavour to an entertainment or brand experience, but has many of the same tools.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Progress toward a virtual world-anchored PLM. Nice.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Like it :)
September 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
More than Opensim…it’s the beginning of the metaplatform! Very cool.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:48 am
[...] integration of Sametime and OpenSim is interesting; I like the video, it lets people who never used virtual worlds realize their [...]
September 29th, 2008 at 7:01 am
[...] Deshalb soll aber der Stab über die 3D-Welten nicht gebrochen werden. Hier ein Ansatz der IBM, den ich für vielversprechend halte: Ein Problem wird gelöst, in dem sich zwei Mitarbeiter im virtuellen Raum treffen und dabei anhand eines 3D-Modells festlegen, was wo zu machen ist (via eightbar). [...]