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9. Explore alternatives to Second Life technology
- Project Wonderland, a tool kit for building 3-D virtual worlds, sponsored by Sun Microsystems
- Forterra Systems Inc.'s secure dedicated On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) platform
- IBM's Project BlueGrass
"It's time to get involved -- to get used to the issues, the programming concerns," advises Clear Ink's Nelson.
10. Be patient
This year, virtual-world operations centers will be expensive to create and won't be provably mission-critical reliable. However, within the next year or two, "virtual world as management interface" should get closer to reality, as a) more APIs and virtual-world representations of are built, b) the client and server software gets more provably reliable, and c) client software that can provide scaled-down access for less powerful computers and for handhelds and smart phones becomes available.
Daniel P. Dern is a freelance technology writer based in the US. His Web site is dern.com and his technology blog is TryingTechnology.com.
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