IBM and Sun Launch Intranet Metaverses

wjamesau writes "Sun and IBM have launched intranet metaverses designed for business and built to work behind their corporate firewalls, so their worldwide employees can use them to collaborate together. Most interesting to game developers, IBM (which also runs a private, no public access Second Life island as a development lab) created their intranet world from the 3D Torque engine from Garage Games. Will the metaverse actually be thousands of gated community metaverses?"

It is.

[affliction]

This is the worst fucking idea ever.

Answer.

[Anonymous Coward]

Will the metaverse actually be thousands of gated community metaverses?

No, that's just silly. A metaverse will be a single line of the first metapoem.

Re:Sun and IBM?

[larry bagina]

They've leveraged forces to combine synergies to collaboratively multitask new paradigms for shitcanning their entire US work force.

Re:Try Croquet

[QuantumG]

Could have been worse I suppose.. you could have said it was based on LISP.

Go read The End Of History And The Last Programming Language.

Stop living in denial.

Re:It is

[Harmonious Botch]

Not really. They ARE going to play games on company time. At least this way the employer can sort of put a cap on it. ( And freeze your avatar when you are behind on a deadline )

Re:WTF?

[Hal_Porter]

Metaverses are an important paradigm in the post Web 2.0 era, taking advantage of the wisdom of crowds and allowing open sourcing of ideas. And furries can yiff in them too.

Re:It is.

[__aaclcg7560]

You don't get it. This is the first step in IBM's plan fire 150,000 workers world-wide and then hire virtual people to the virtual work that they plan to charge at real prices. It's a brillant strategy!

Re:It is.

[schwaang]

Actually the Torque engine is a relic from Tribes 2. Everybody hold down your space bar to ski between cubicles!

(Trolling, please ignore)

[Anonymous Coward]

What's Google and Wikipedia?

The first metapoem

[Short Circuit]

Something flashy
Something dark
Something hopeful
Something deep.

There you go. The first metapoem, in iambic verse. Written by Short Circuit.