Sun's MPK20 is Second Life for professionals

[ladydtrain]

I'd like to see examples of this!

[phdiam]

This is a fascinating way to apply second life technology in a more business oriented way

[rodsky71]

How does one exactly define "business oriented"? My company has been holding business meetings in Second Life and have used SL solely as a business platform for the past 8 months. So to me, the argument that MPK20 is "more business oriented" doesn't seem to hold water.

[EliteSLi]

Fanboy, maybe you missed the real time document view/editing. It's not just about "conferance meetings", she just showed how with 1 program you can edit documents and other work that usually would take multiple programs and windows to do. Not only that but with this 1 program you can edit those documents in a multiplayer enviornment so that you all can work on the same project in real time over the net.

[rodsky71]

LOL fanboy eh? shakes head Yes, we do that in SecondLife as well. The apps are always third party. There's nothing special to collaborative work--it's just a matter of scripting.

[teed7]

Let me know when Linden decides to write a client which doesn't constantly crash, graphics which render at XBOX HD quality and provide non-lagging multi-user interaction at HALO quality. Bungy could create a high quality world which would blow away the Linden technology. I absolutely LOVE SL but really hope somebody buys the world from them and switches out the technology.

[rodsky71]

In a few days, the Havok4 engine will be released gridwide. Public "live" testing of these servers were done starting September 2007, and LL deems it's finally ready for the entire grid. Most of the problems with crashes are physics related, and thus H4 will help fix those.