BT taps into Second Life

BT has also developed a conferencing service that could be used to connect up members of a group -- some of whom could be logged into a virtual world and some on the road.

"If you have businesses that wanted to exploit conferencing in Second Life as a rich 3D environment to show off products and save on travel costs, the problem is everyone has to have Second Life running so you don't have that reach to all employees," Brotherton said.

"By using conferencing as exposed by our Web21C Platform everyone that can join Second Life can do but you can still [conference in] everyone else who is on a train or doesn't have a powerful enough PC [to run Second Life]."

Credit: BT

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