> I am looking for resources on interactive and interaction design > projects, scenarios and approaches regarding 3D Environemts and > collaborative virtual worlds, especially in a Business or Enterprise > related context.
Any business/enterprise that is considering using a 3D environment for collaboration needs to take a deep breath. There is an enormous amount of evidence that the whole Second Life thing was a huge scam, that all of the businesses who got involved got burned badly -- look for articles about that. The history of the web is littered with the corpses of companies and products who tried to use 3D to do something that works just fine in 2D (ex: VRML) So your first question should really be "why?" Unless, of course, the business in question's product or service has to do with 3D graphics: creating 3D animation, architecture, games, industrial design, etc. If people need to collaborate about 3D design, then being in the same virtual world makes perfect sense. I really hate to be a party-pooper, because this stuff is certainly fun to work on -- and I still suspect that in a 100 years 3D virtual worlds will be the norm -- but for now I'd recommend viewing such a project as an R&D investment. -Cf Christopher Fahey ____________________________ Behavior biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com me: http://www.graphpaper.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
