acceleration in the metaverse
Qwaq Forums - the business oriented metaverse
Qwaq Forums, the revolutionary next generation virtual workspace for business collaboration and e-learning, has been recently covered by the Wall Street Journal: “Companies are turning to virtual offices and landscapes as tools for employees and business partners to collaborate and learn”. In an article titled Qwaq Brings Virtual Worlds To Business Collaboration, Information Week reports that “The power of virtual worlds is that they trick your brain into thinking you’re actually sharing a physical space with other people, participating in a shared activity. As a result, conversations and collaboration are richer. People who’d remain silent in a conference call, WebEx, or chat room will speak up in a meeting in a virtual world. Using Qwaq, you can bring in documents, such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, Microsoft Word documents, spreadsheets, and more, and you can discuss the documents and collaborate on changing them. You can do the same with 3-D objects created with just about any popular 3-D design and drawing software. You can create freehand diagrams on a shared whiteboard, and discuss those diagrams”. Such issues have been a major focus at Virtual Worlds 2008 in New York.
The image above shows two of the most useful features of Qwaq Forums: a Firefox in-world web browser displaying the qwaq.com website, and a video player with a presentation of Qwaq Forums by Innovex4G staff. The video presentations (in Spanish) show other important business oriented features such as videoconferencing and collaborative document editing.
Video can be imported in Qwaq Forums after converting it to MPEG2. Direct import of MPEG4 and Flash video is in the works and will be available in one of the next releases. The Wall Street Journal article shows another upcoming feature: realistic avatars and environments.
The new website of Qwaq lists five main business applications: a complete virtual environment for effective program and project management; a virtual operations center accessible from anywhere in the world; an ideal environment in which facilitators or moderators can guide more effective meeting workflows to solve challenging group tasks, such as developing strategy or resolving negotiations; immersive technology that allows all participants to communicate more effectively, enabling rich feedback between users and resulting in a more compelling learning setting for corporate training and other transfers-of-information that businesses depend on; and virtual offices as an effective way to create an immediate presence in remote locations. Like a physical office, an office in Qwaq Forums is a secure, persistent place to meet with clients and prospects, present proposals, and work with colleagues in an immersive setting that supports access from anywhere in the world.
Posted by G.P. on 04/05/08
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