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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. Re:WTF? by Andrew+Kismet · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse

    I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
    I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
    I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.

  2. Re:metaverse??? by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Informative
    First time I heard it was in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Worth a read.

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  3. Re:Sun and IBM? by hutchike · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sun and IBM are not collaborating on this. Sun is using its Darkstar gaming server to deliver Menlo Park 2.0. IBM is using a private island in Second Life. No connection - just a similar initiative.

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