An old friend and colleague just sent me these notes he had written up for the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference that just took place in NY.
main point being there is a lot of stuff happening out there and SecondLife is just one player.
DEFINING QUOTES:
“We are at the silent movie stage.”
“This is one freaky, geeky 21st century we are moving into.”
“A lot of this is going to happen and a lot of it is not going to happen.”
Companies to watch:
- GSD&M marketing and advertising
- Forterra – If SecondLife is the Internet then these guys are the Intranet, serious technology for training, Military, medical etc.
- 3pointD.com Blog about the meterverse
- Reallusion – 3d tools
- There.com Similar value proposition to SecondLife
- Second Life
- Parks Associates Consumer research for “digital living technologies” (not sure what meterverse related stuff they’ve done)
- Multiverse Network of MMOGS and Virtual Worlds
- McKenna (?)
- Entropia Universe a “massive online virtual universe” cool graphics, real economy
- Proton Media e-Learning, e-Meetings, e-Selling
- Whyville Kids virtual world for learning
- Habbo The 8bit graphic version of SecondLife
- Trilogy Studios Game developer? (I hope there games are more fun than their site, bit of a problem navigating the flash pop-up site)
You should definitely go read the rest of his notes, i just pulled a couple of things that caught my eye
