Comments on: Teleplace/QWAQ Liquidated By Financial Singularity?

By: lmfuckingmao

lmfuckingmao — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:20:57 +0000

hahahahahah LL is promoting business meetings inside a crappy videogame since ages …. without success and normal business people keep laughing …LMFAO.

now seriously …go offline and get a fuckin life…..

By: I Liek Corm

I Liek Corm — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:35:31 +0000

3dicc? more like 3 dicks.

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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

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By: Robble "Little Hitler" Rubble

Robble "Little Hitler" Rubble — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:19:17 +0000

“Pixeleen Mistral: Never underestimate the power of cute, at least outside a business context.
Mark McCahill: If anyone would know, it’s you Pix.”

I cringed when I read this and I spend time browsing horrible gore pictures to forward to hapless people.

By: T-Bone

T-Bone — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:23:01 +0000

…..*falls fast asleep reading the booooooooring article….dreams of fresh, incisive,journalistic probes and revelations on the crumbling SL empire that is a sitting duck for even half assed investigations*

By: AgileBill

AgileBill — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:44 +0000

Have you seen Sococo?

Immserive meetings are different. They can either be worse or better than face to face for phone calls because they let you model things impossible in real life. Too much and it’s distracting, so it’s an art to get the right balance. Simplicity wins.

I like SpotOn3d, Web.Alive (waves to Joe), VenueGen, and yes Teleplace (dries a tear). (I don’t list Second Life because it mixes in the entertainment space). But practically I find Sococo with it’s 2 dimensional simpler interface and circles instead of avatars to be a sweet spot.

It balances an always on spatial environment with simplicty. You still get to share screens, voice over IP, text, shared app control, mobile / web cam on it’s way. But the cleaner 2d interface subtracts from noise. People that wnat 3d avatars can use Web.Alive and VenueGen. People who want to build at runtime can use SpotOn3d.

The tools are all hard to learn, but when you pick the right one and learn it they are showing some interactive effects that make them more engaging for trained users.
(imho)

By: JustMe

JustMe — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:49:22 +0000

Seren .. Simulcasting of RL events . that I can see and understand. But any virtual world “immersive” meeting I have attended . and there’s been a few of them .. have been full of “where did you get that shirt” and other comments about avatars that detracted from the meeting itself. My comment about virtual world meetings is based on that.

The best conferences, to me, are video conference calls when you have a central camera or two covering the meeting area, as well as the Powerpoint or video being presented. . that way you can see the people and the presentation., without the distraction of the virtual world enviornment.

By: hobo kelly

hobo kelly — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:18:03 +0000

if Teleplace is a worthy application on its own and not just a kool app whose real purpose is to show off the capabilities of the underlying operating system, then port it to Flash and sell it to Facebook for embedding like Farmville or something like that.

also, Mischief Makers, do not click this link, repeat, do not click this link unless you want to be drawn into a 6 part Christmas mind warp from which you or your sanity may never ever return…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wale6hlpuc

merry xmas AH

By: Seren Seraph

Seren Seraph — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:31:50 +0000

Telephones suck utterly to do a presentation to dozens of people. Mailing materials and giving instructions of when to look at what is ridiculous in the internet age. Go hang in the caves with your phone if that turns you on though. Try immersive meetings. They do add significantly to the experience. Including simulcast to virtual worlds of real world events some cannot attend in person. Ask IBM whether it is a worthwhile business practice to hold meetings in virtual worlds. All of that said I found the Teleplace offering grossly overpriced for relatively little. Generally I don’t find OpenKwaq or even Croquet to hold a candle to the immersive abilities of SecondLife or opensim. They are a bit better at patching in various sorts of documents but this isn’t an insurmountable edge.

By: Vaneeesa Blaylock

Vaneeesa Blaylock — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:34:15 +0000

Oh.
WoW.
hahaha.