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The Matrix For Businesses
An anonymous reader writes "The idea of using virtual reality and gaming technologies to create training exercises and business simulations has been around for years. But recent advances in computer graphics, interfaces, and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games have made it commercially viable to pursue simulations in the business world. Novel, a venture-backed startup company, is about to launch a new MMO role-playing game, called Empire & State, with an unusual goal: to use the technology and the lessons it learns from the game to create simulations for big companies that want to improve their human resources and hiring efficiencies. Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario. That's the goal, but Novel will face challenges of all sorts — business, social, and technical — in its efforts to sell MMO technologies to the corporate world."
Today's Dilbert, quite on-topic!
I can see it now....someone says something dumb, Frank from Accounting comes over to their side of the conference table, jumps up on it and proceeds to tea bag them.
Yeah, MMO-like corporate worlds could be fantastic.
Sent from your iPad.
". . . but you'll need real world skills to be successful."
*sigh*
But I play video games because I DON'T have real world skills.
Hey, I was only kidding. You don't have to MOD me "Troll" . . . again . . . .
If you learn to game the game they offer to promote you to manager.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
The summary sucks. You guys have no idea - it doesn't do it justice. I've RTFA. And to be honest, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
How about hitting on the bosses?
Become number 1 on ur server! go to EmpireAndStateHax.dum for free hax! Outscore your boss, become the new manager!
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Neo: If you're fired in the Matrix, are you unemployed here?
Morpheus: The body cannot receive a paycheck without the mind. Well, except government jobs, but you get my point.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Something like CTRL+Shift+C, type "rosebud" and you're the CEO.
"... to create simulations for big companies that want to improve their human resources and hiring efficiencies."
So it's some kind of First Person Shooter?
No wonder why nothing ever gets done at Linden Lab, people who work there don't even know what the others are doing.
Except for the Linden Labs Ministry of Truth. They know where your house lives.
Will I be able to grief my boss?
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This seems pretty much exactly like an old parody video that was out a while back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmRwlg23Qc
Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario.
Sounds like the Kobayashi Maru scenario to me, just without any of the fun.