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Archive for March 19th, 2008

Global Employee Session in Mixed-Media, Enterprise-Integrated Virtual World

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Thanks to all for the comments and dialogue on the previous posts. Today, I'll get back to discussing technology, which is the real purpose of this blog. :-)

One of the goals that drives me and certainly one of the big challenges and opportunities for the industry is to figure out how we can achieve a better-than-reality communications experience through the use of technology.

I wanted to share with you an event that happened at Nortel this week that represents a step on that journey.

Yesterday, I held a global employee session within a virtual mixed-reality world, using a prototype platform we’re investigating as part of an incubation effort. We had 150+ people participating in the virtual environment, hundreds of others ...

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