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Forrester has released a report, Getting Real Work Done In Virtual Worlds, that reports that virtual…

Forrester has released a report, Getting Real Work Done In Virtual Worlds, that reports that virtual worlds show stroing promise to become valuable work tools; and that the 3D Internet will be as critical for business in five years as the Web is today:

"Use them to try to replicate the experience of working physically alongside others; allow people to work with and share digital 3-D models of physical or theoretical objects; and make remote training and counseling more realistic by incorporating nonverbal communication into same-time, different-place interactions."

Meanwhile, on the front of realworld/virtual world integration, I just came across an interesting little 2-man firm called Mellanium.

Interesting to me at least because it is focused on very high-resolution virtual environments for business, educational and metaversal types of applications. Here's a video and a fun little image from the MellaniuM crew.

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