Business In Virtual Worlds
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Businesses
have started to sit up and take note of virtual worlds as they begin to
recognise that they offer some exciting new methods to communicate with
their potential clients, other businesses and organisations that they collaborate
with and internally within their own organisation.
Virtual meetings, conferences and events can be held easily in Second Life® allowing people to attend from all over the world from their own computer. Real world events can be streamed live into Second Life® allowing those in other locations to be present virtually and see the real world event on a video screen inside Second Life®.
Lectures can be performed using Powerpoint type presentation slides allowing a remote audience to attend and participate.
Collaborative working is very easy in Second Life. For example, a person in the USA can meet up with a colleague in the UK to work together on an idea. Anything created is instantly seen by any person in that location in Second Life®.
Politicians have used Second Life® for their campaigns, a new method of spreading their message.
Many organisations have 'greeters'. Representatives who meet visitors and can show them around, passing relevant information to them in a live human to human interaction.
Companies are using Second Life to demonstrate prototypes or new designs. Starwood Hotels in the USA built their new hotel design before it was built in the real world in order to gather feedback regarding the layout and design. They then used that feedback to adapt the plans.
The Walk In Web can help you to consider the possibilties and their potential benefits to your business. We can then implement any actions on your behalf both within and outside the virtual world. At the moment, we would recommend using the fastest growing Virtual World called Second Life®.
You will also, of course, reach an audience which is growing rapidly and, if you offer something that is popular and interesting to visitors, the users of Second Life® will be glad to pass the word around that you are there.
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