I had a very interesting conversation with Julian Lombardi yesterday. He is one of the key drivers behind the Croquet Consortium who develop Open Source solutions for creating and deploying "deeply collaborative multi-user online applications" With all the hype around Second Life it is good to recall that it's not entirely suited to solid business applications and that Croquet can be a much better platform. Business applications include:
1 Virtual Incident Command and Control
2 Educational and Training Environments
3 Advanced Visualisation
There is also an entirely new family of applications based on realising value from the creation of assets in the virtual world. (Not to be confused with creating a virtual physical world as in SL - but creating "assets" that represent information. Like "wikis on steroids" – evolving through collective actions of individuals)
Does it sound SF-like? Watch how quickly this evolves even by the end of the decade!!
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