Yet another article on compterworld.com caught my eye titled,"Why Google's 'Lively' is great for telecommuters". The author talks about Google launching its free version of a 3D virtual environment called Lively. Google plans on filling holes where Second Life failed at or left open. Second Life is a free online virtual world used for business, education, and entertainment. For the moment Lively looks silly with a cartoonish look and is a trendy place for teens to use, like social networks and instant messaging started out as. Only later to become tools for professionals and business to collaborate and communicate. Eventually Lively will become a great tool for telecommuters to replace business travel presentations, and conferences.
Employees traveling away from the office can enjoy the same interaction and involvement as coworkers at the office. As more companies start to use virtual environments, more ideas will surface on how 3D can increase productivity. One may think that companies will not take advantage of 3D environments but that is what people always say when new teen trends occur. Just like nobody thought social networks and corporate America would team up but obliviously that is not true.
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I've never understood the trend for 3D environments to be used socially and for work. All of the things in a 3D environment can be done much easier on the web through sites, forums, blogs, etc. I just think 3D adds an unnecessary layer of complication on top of it all.
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