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Ever had to travel to a business tradeshow or conference? As I am sure most of us have, we endure the tedious travel arrangements, flight and transportation hassles (don’t you just love those buy on board meals???!!!…yummmmyyy!), outrageous hotel and food expenses and those seemingly endless days. An emerging alternative to eliminating these hassles and cutting expense would be to attend a Virtual Event. So what is a “Virtual Event” you may ask? Well it is a virtual world based experience that allows you to interact with the conference and other attendees in real time and non-locally. A much easier solution and Virtual Events = Lower Cost for companies.

The world is going green, oh excuse me, “clean” seems to be the new buzz word, following this trend, Unisfair began calculating the positive environmental impact. So what’s the moral of this post? Virtual Events cater to a variety of needs, range in size, are extremely cost effective, and enjoy political correctness.

Some of us at Visual Purple have experienced virtual conferences and the general consensus is they are a step in the right direction. However, fidelity seems to be the operative concern. One of the tangible benefits of enduring a real conference is to mingle and meet new folks and explore ways to work together. And key to that relationship building is detecting the nuances of body language. As virtual worlds become a higher fidelity experience, we can see the day where virtual conferences really will be almost as good as being there.

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