Sun puts some real business in 3D environments (video)

If you're one of the many folks who have (legitimately) been scratching their heads
over the use of Second Life, you might want to look at Sun's MPK20 project. The company showed off a very early prototype on Thursday at an open house of Sun Labs.

Mpk20 Instead of building fancy pavilions on overprices virtual land, MPK20 uses a 3D environment as a collaboration tool. The people you run into aren't strangers but work for the same company, or at least work on the same project. The platform allows for VoIP conversations but you can also look at a presentation or share a document.

You can watch a video demo below.

27 Apr 2007

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Very interesting! Several of these features are already available in Second Life including shared whiteboards, live streamed-in video, powerpoint-type presentations, and stereo localized audio. The VOIP function is in testing now, and supposedly works quite well. A "walled garden" approach to business applications of course makes a lot of sense, particularly if you are discussing sensitive subjects and sharing top secret info.

Posted by: rikomatic 02 May 2007

I love it, I've suggested that Second Life needs to do something along the lines of incorporating Open Office capabilities or add the features of Zoho or Google Docs & Spreadsheets to Second Life if it is to be a useful medium for business communication - as well as having restricted access and identifying avatars with the real names and job titles of the participants. I hope I can get Sun to let me try this thing out.

Posted by: SuezanneC Baskerville 01 May 2007

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