JimmyJet Fossett Jan 23, 2008

Thanks for the mixed reality event put on by the ‘always able’ Cisco crew. 

The video streaming came in really well, demonstrating the power of virtual environments to host real life presentations.

I took a few event photos and have posted them at http://flickr.com/photos/seesaw8/sets/72157603780893010/

Looking forward to the upcoming mixed-reality event on January 31st.

Moriz Gupte Jan 28, 2008

Hello, it looks like Cisco is still very much interested in SL. I was wondering if there are plans for Cisco to move to ‘more private’ worlds for privacy reasons, as suggested by IBM when they announced their own multi-verse effort. What’s cisco take on that? Does Cisco use SL for internal meetings or is it only for outreach?

Christian Renaud Jan 28, 2008

Moriz,

You are correct, we are still interested in SL, as we have been very pleased with the amount of customer and partner interaction we have been able to accomplish using it.

For internal meetings, or more sensitive meetings, obviously it is not appropriate to use Second Life due to their architecture and certain components of their T.O.S..  As such, we use other more-secure tools for sensitive meetings, or take sensitive content out of the ‘Second Life Stream’ per se. 

We do have intraverses, internal virtual world platforms that we use for internal teams to collaborate within the firewall, as well as extraverses such as the partner showcase that we use with our application service providers and channel partners. 

In sum, these technologies are more of a ‘how’ to us than a specific ‘where’, although there is a ‘where’ component when we meet for events.  We see the reach of these technologies getting more intertwined with traditional collaboration tools as well as other Web 2.0 tools to become another presentation-layer on data.  Hopefully an aggregation layer too. 

Christian