Virtual worlds mean money for some. How?

Content protection and selling skins or other assets has dominated the business discussion for too long. Look at the flatweb - templates and photoshop pics are sold, but the big money is somewhere else.

After Openlifegrid, SpotOn3D is next in line for Maxping inspection. We expected to encounter just-another-SL-clone, but SpotOn3D seems have much more depth and thinking under the hood.

Frustration abounds! Lately it seems as though the term “virtual worlds” has morphed to such a wide variety of meanings that it is nearly impossible to go back to “meaning zero.”

A Victoria University TAFE educator has been awarded a study tour to Asia to investigate how computer games can be used to train blue-collar workers.

Maxping comment on collaboration: Collaboration is strongly suggested a growing market, no doubt. The massively spreading collaboration platforms we see at the moment, are mostly offers that open source or a hosted service that have a "for free" option. So many SoHo user and young skilled professionals are using them. This exactly the step 3D web has to take - getting mature, getting serious and make the step in the CEO´s office of the companies with +500 employees. There is a market - any sales people out there ?

Class rooms, teachers, kids. The paradigm is about to change. Embrace it and affect how it is happening or deny it and be a dinosaur. The decision makers at the City of Oulu made up their minds already. Read how the transformation of the traditional school environment into a functional virtual learning environment of the future is planned.