The Emergence Of Web3D

Air Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Content & Collaboration professionals, CIOs, and Enterprise Architecture professionals

Description:

The Internet is on the cusp of its next major evolution: Web3D. Within five to seven years, Web3D will deliver an interactive, immersive experience that is much richer than the static, text-oriented, or even interactive graphical interfaces of today's Web. In this new world of work, people will be represented visually by avatars that can move in space, communicate with others, and interact with objects and information — making the digital world seem more like the real world. Yet Web3D won't leave the old world behind; it will integrate with the Web technologies we use today as well as existing and new business applications. Workers will use Web3D to teach and learn, innovate collaboratively, communicate and network, interact with and present information, and manage real-world systems remotely.

Agenda:

• What is Web3-D?
• Web3D drivers
• We will work very differently in five to seven years.
• How Forrester thinks it will all play out
• Recommendations

Vendors mentioned: BreakAway Ltd., Forterra Systems, IBM, Icarus Studios, Linden Lab, Proton Media, Qwaq, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Unisfair, and Virtual Heroes.

Research coming soon: The Emergence of Web3D

Related Research:

Getting Real Work Done In Virtual Worlds

by Erica Driver, Paul Jackson, January 7, 2008

Technical requirements:

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