Late April of 2007 Tech Consultancy Gartner made the daring prediction by the time we’d reach 2011, 80% of the active internet users would be in non-gaming Virtual Worlds. Though this was met with great skepticism (and rightfully so), Gartner explained their prediction was not just a spur of the moment. They based their ‘findings’ [...]
Posted on: January 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I wish everyone a very happy, insightful and inspirational 2008! This year has been the year where Virtual Worlds where praised and cast out by main stream media. The year of the rise and maturing of the Social Web. The year where Second Life has made it clear 3d Virtual World platforms have a massive [...]
Posted on: December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Earlier I reported about Virtual World News’ survey amongst 45 big players in the field of Virtual Worlds, and now they want bloggers to answer the same questions:
VirtualWorldsNews.com wants to know your industry predictions and business goals for 2008. Answer the following questions on your own blog and then post a link to your blog [...]
Posted on: December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of my favorite websites is Trendwatching.com. They list, analyze and explain upcoming trends, hypes and subtrends and present these findings in a very attractive and readable way. With all the lists of predictions for the metaverse being posted, I wanted to see how they connected to the most important Consumer based trends. I’ll start [...]
Posted on: December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
The Virtual World News website recently conducted a survey and published its results on trends for 2008. Amongst 45 Virtual Worlds experts (a lot of the usual names, Electric Sheep, Millions of Us, IBM, etc.) answered the following 5 questions:
What are your top 3 trend predictions for 2008?
What business goals have you set for 2008?
What [...]
Posted on: December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So 2007 has come, and almost gone. One more month and we will be able to see the exact figures what this year has brought virtual worlds. In the meanwhile we can look at what to expect of 2008 for Metaverse and Virtual Reality. Major trends that will play a role in the ‘year of [...]
Posted on: November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
