September 04, 2008

Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference Recap


What a jam packed week it was in LA this week at the Virtual Worlds conference. I am beyond sorry to have missed it but folks did a great job of blogging and tweeting about the activities so it felt like I was there. Here is my list of the most interesting announcements made during the conference.

  • Myrl launched their open beta promoting outeroperability between 19 virtual worlds: read now
  • Congrats to IBM for their award for Innovation in Virtual Worlds for the Enterprise. During the conference IBMs integration of Sametime with Second Life was announced: read now
  • Rivers Run Red and Second Life enter a partnership to develop enterprise virtual world collaboration tools: read now
  • The U.S. Air Force published the RFP for their ambitious virtual world effort, MyBase: read now
  • Vivaty announced Firefox support for scenes: read now
  • What did you think was the most exciting or interesting announcement?

    Dannette Veale Posted by Dannette Veale at 06:00PM PST

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