Is Virtual Presence Viable for Collaboration? A Look at IBM's "Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime"
3 July 2009 - 11:24pm
| Jesse K-S
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia
IBM announced last week that it was adding a virtual world collaboration service it's calling Virtual Collaboration to its Lotus Sametime communications and collaboration software, which is aimed primarily at enterprises. Virtual Collaboration allows users to collectively view and create documents in a virtual environment similar to Second Life, in essence creating virtual work and meeting spaces. It's pretty cool, but does this kind of immersive technology actually make collaboration via virtual presence a realistic option?
