Dopo il successo riscosso da Second Life, due tra le più importanti aziende al mondo hanno deciso di creare un mondo virtuale tutto loro, in cui solo i diepndenti delle due aziende hanno accesso: si tratta di SUN e IBM, entrambe già fortemente presenti su Second Life
http://micheleleidi.blogspot.com/2007/05/mondi-virtuali-non-solo-marketing.html
Qui sotto riportiamo la discussione avuta presso l'ufficio clienti sull'isola di Sun Microsystem con due collaboratori di Sun
[5:42] You: hello
[5:42] Jhaczyn Writer: hello, and good morning
[5:43] Jhaczyn Writer: where are you from?
[5:44] You: hello
[5:44] You: i'm from italy
[5:45] Jhaczyn Writer: I'm in the US… are you a SUn employee?
[5:45] You: no
[5:45] You: i'm an ityalian student
[5:46] Jhaczyn Writer: good for you, what are you studying?
[5:46] You: i'm going to graduate in engeneering
[5:46] You: can we have a little talk about conferences in sl?
[5:47] Jhaczyn Writer: if you like… I'm waiting for a co-worker to appear so we can discuss this week-ends issues with our customers
[5:48] You: ok, we can talk till he appears.. right?
[5:49] Jhaczyn Writer: I'll be in and out…I'm tracing a customer error as we speak…
[5:49] Jhaczyn Writer: what would you like to knoiw about conferences?
[5:50] You: i'm doing a little research for my marketing course at the university
[5:51] You: i'd lke to know the advantages that a company encounters in doing conferences in sl…
[5:52] Jhaczyn Writer: well, for us, since there are a lot of employees who work remotely, it gives us a centralized place to meet "virtually", similiar to an office meeting
[5:53] Jhaczyn Writer: it also tends to be more interactive than a conference call
[5:53] You: exactly this! why it's more interactive?
[5:55] Jhaczyn Writer: for me, there is the history window, so you can track what is being said by all, secondly, it allows you to participate by sharing common problems with your team.
[5:55] Jhaczyn Writer: so if you are scattered from all over, like you and I, we can involve the remote employees as a single entity
[5:56] You: ok, do you think that conference in sl are better than for example videoconferences?
[5:58] Jhaczyn Writer: I do not have that much experience with video conferences, but from what I have, they tend to be more of a example of disimmenating information than exchanging it
[5:58] Jhaczyn Writer: good mornign Guy
[5:58] Jhaczyn Writer: nice that you could make it
[5:58] Guy Trenchard: good morning
[5:58] You: good morning guy
[5:58] Jhaczyn Writer: this is Zap, he's a college student from Italy
[5:58] You: can i make you on more question jhaczyn?
[5:58] Jhaczyn Writer: sure
[5:59] You: thanks
[5:59] You: i know that sun microsytems have just created an its own virtual world
[5:59] You: whay?
[5:59] You: whay?
[5:59] You: sorry, why?
[6:01] Jhaczyn Writer: I think it's to allow potential customer a "virtual" look and feel of what Sun has to offer. There are demo's that are going to be set up for customers to look at, and possibly try
[6:02] You: but anyone can enter in that virtual world or only sun emloyee?
[6:02] Jhaczyn Writer: yuo're here, are you not?
[6:02] Jhaczyn Writer: There may be places reserved for Sun employees, but I'm not involved with that..
[6:03] You: ok thank you for your answers
[6:03] You: if you have time
[6:04] You: can you answer to a short questionary?
[6:05] Jhaczyn Writer: let Guy give it a shot, I'd like to see what he has to say…OK with you Guy?
[6:05] Paty Zabelin is Online
[6:05] Guy Trenchard: sure
[6:06] Guy Trenchard: still checking wrok from the weekend
[6:06] You: ok, i send you thew questionary by IM
[6:06] You: ok guy
[6:06] You: hello
[6:07] Guy Trenchard: ok
[6:07] You: i and jhaczyn where discussing about advantages in conferences here in sl
[6:07] You: what do you think?
[6:08] You: in this meanwhile i've sended you a questionary about conferences
[6:09] Guy Trenchard: this is live viedo conference back in 2003 [6:08] Guy Trenchard: you could do but it was and is painful [6:08] Guy Trenchard: after voice comes this will kill alot of minor travel [6:08] Sally Damask is typing…
[6:11] You: sorry, but i din't understand what you meant…
[6:11] Guy Trenchard: meeting in SL is goiung to get much better soon
[6:12] You: why?
[6:16] Guy Trenchard: zap this is barly functional now
[6:17] Jhaczyn Writer: who's yawning?
[6:17] Guy Trenchard: this needs to be real time voice and file transfers
[6:17] Jhaczyn Writer: I am not experincing any latency
[6:17] You: well voice is near..
[6:19] You: however, thank you so much for your answers!
[6:19] You: i left a short questionary to you by IM
[6:20] You: if you have time please answer me by male
[6:20] Guy Trenchard: np
[6:20] Jhaczyn Writer: same here… some time later today…
[6:20] You: ok no problem, i'm not in a hurry
[6:21] You: thank you
[6:21] You: c ya
