Enterprise-Class Second Life

Tuesday, Apr. 8 2008 | Author: Dave

Because office workers don’t waste enough time in their day, Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, and IBM are partnering to develop their own virtual world that will be hidden away behind the corporate firewall.

The system is said to be useful for sales training and collaboration exercises and will be integrated with other back-end applications. This will allow workers to manage business data from within the virtual conference room.

Is this something we really need? I never got into Second Life, and as such, I am not sure if I can really understand the fascination with adding such tools to the workplace. I feel like Second Life doesn’t provide the interaction needed to truely be more productive than other groupware applications.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.

Source: ZDNet

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2 Responses for "Enterprise-Class Second Life"

Tim Hill

April 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
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hmm, considering the training needed for this to work not sure its really that smart a move. Motivating sales staff to logon Second Life and participate in training would be pretty hard.

it could raise interest but think in person training would still be better in those situations.

“I am not sure if I can really understand the fascination with adding such tools to the workplace.”
I can see benefit, ie reduced cost to train but still think over mechanisms might work better.
Mr Butterscotch

April 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
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You know, Second Life keeps getting picked up – I still really believe that some pick it up and see something which a lot of others do not – whether that is a training tool, a game or something else. I’ve never engaged much with it, but I have heard it’s quite a strange place to inhabit.