Virtual Worlds- What’s the Future Look Like?
December 17th, 2008
The future of Virtual World’s is very bright… Despite Google’s recent announcement that they are closing down Lively at the end of this year, almost all other Virtual Worlds are on the rise. With many new Virtual Worlds currently in the development stage, the Virtual World sector is in its infancy. We are like most other forecasters in believing that Virtual Worlds will be as popular as the Internet is now, within the next 2 to 5 years (there’s a good reason why Vista is 3D-based). These multi-user online spaces have seen many new visitors and adopters to the newly developed technology and applications. Today, many Virtual Worlds are marketed as games; however the future of Virtual Worlds will continue to break into the education and training markets. Although the applications of Virtual Worlds span from being utilized for fun, training, e-learning, and collaborating more and more Virtual Worlds are being introduced as learning tools within the workplace. Virtual Worlds offer a broad range of applications/ uses across all sectors. A lot of the Worlds in the market now function as social spaces. The future of Virtual Worlds looks to transform daily life as we know it whether entering VW’s for business or pleasure. We believe that technology advancements will continue to be introduced in the VW sector and the overall mass adoption of Virtual Worlds will continue across all age groups.
Okay, consider yourself primed on the very basics of VW’s. From here on out, we’ll endeavor to get more specific on features, challenges, implementations, etc…thanks for coming along!
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