Comments on: IBM sees big future in 3D, but probably not in Second Life

By: Saturday Post

Saturday Post — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:42:08 +0000

When David Charbruck of Lenovo says: “There is nothing to do in Second Life except, pardon my bluntness, try to get laid.” he belies the fact that David Charbruck couldn’t find anything to do in Second Life besides trying to get laid. Good luck with that, David.

By: Second Life update at intaneti

Second Life update at intaneti — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:32:03 +0000

[...] fremover. IBM, der er en af de virksomheder der har satses stort i SL, ser da også stadig et stort potentialle i 3D online universer, men samtidig peges der på at det formentlig ikke er i SL at fremtiden er, men i alternative [...]

By: Artist3d

Artist3d — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:45:17 +0000

It is all a matter of perspective and nothing beats the 3D internet for meeting and talking in real time and with that sense of presence you get when you are standing right next to a person 3000 miles away from the comfort of your home computer! Active Worlds with over 700 3D theme worlds has been quietly growing real virtual realities for over 10 years and Second Life is but a wonderful commercial off-shoot of that original community-minded venture. It is all moving towards global networking on a scale of real-time interactivity hitherto unimagined!!! Watch and learn. The 2D Internet will become merely a glorified Yellow Pages used as a reference from within the 3D Universes of tomorrow.

By: The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-06-20

The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-06-20 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:21:55 +0000

[...] VentureBeat » IBM sees big future in 3D, but probably not in Second Life IBM, one of the nation’s largest companies, sees a big future in 3D worlds — but it probably won’t be with Second Life. As I’ve said before: SL is a good place to experiement, but the 3D web will be much bigger than SL. (tags: 3-d secondlife) [...]

By: Sundog Sakai

Sundog Sakai — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:39:49 +0000

I doubt very much that Lee Dierdorf speaks for IBM. Not to downplay Mr. Dierdorf but there’s no shortage of VP’s at IBM. In the end what speaks volumes is IBM’s CEO’s statement that they are spending over $100 million on Second Life and related Virtual world technologies.

As for Mr. Churbuck, well, I think that Rich cut to the heart of that pretty effectively.

What really matters is that 3D worlds like Second Life take the focus off of the products being pushed and put it on the interactions between members of communities. Big companies like IBM have a lot to fear from communities that they don’t control.

This cat is out of the bag… SL is doubling in size every 6 months and there’s not much that can be done to stop it. SL has open sourced their client app and will open source their server soon. SL is to the web as television and radio were to print.

Get with the times and stop taking pot shots at thing you don’t understand.

By: dprawel

dprawel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:51:54 +0000

SL is a neat social experiment, but little else. The members of SL are not people who are looking to buy anything bigger than a breadbox (cost or size), and have little money to buy much of anything. They are there to socialize. There is a big future in 3D and n-D but if one wants to buy sneakers, why not just go to Nike.com?
My $0.02…

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By: The Cycle » Blog Archive » Taking my medicine

The Cycle » Blog Archive » Taking my medicine — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:17:26 +0000

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By: The Metaverse » Blog Archive » Just what are you doing in Second Life, Mr Corporate?

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:13:20 +0000

[...] weird, chancy place for real-life brands”. Even IBM, that doyen of virtual universes, seems to be getting cold feet, with one executive saying “do I think anonymous avatars dressed in funny clothes are the [...]

By: Virtual Worlds Forum Blog » Blog Archive » Science, virtual worlds and multiplicity

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:56:48 +0000

[...] of PR (both good and bad, but then some say any publicity is blah blah blah). This, in contrast to Big Blue’s announcement that they see the future in 3D in general, rather than Second Life in [...]

By: IBM sees big future in 3D « Daily Rambling Thoughts

IBM sees big future in 3D « Daily Rambling Thoughts — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:01:54 +0000

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By: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:44:11 +0000

yowza, grammar corrected!

By: Ian Schafer » Blog Archive » IBM Puts the Second in Second Life

Ian Schafer » Blog Archive » IBM Puts the Second in Second Life — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:29:57 +0000

[...] to say, IBM is now looking for other venues. Posted in SECOND [...]

By: John LaBouff

John LaBouff — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:05:38 +0000

an absolutely absurd number of typos for a supposedly journalistic publication