Since I said it during the Metaversed geek meet last night, I thought I would repeat for the record what Cisco's position is on Virtual Worlds and help cut short any speculation. In short, and with the caveat that this is my personal blog and not some insidious backdoor for corporate propaganda, Cisco is a proponent of any collaboration or communication over IP, so by definition a supporter and advocate of virtual worlds. I personally LOVE the fact that they consume as much bandwidth as they do, and relish the multi-modality (voice, video) of them.
I'd personally like to see some dominant architectural models emerge relatively soon so we can get down to the real business of market adoption, but startups and academic consortia will be, well, startups and academic consortia.
So, has Cisco announced intent or even intimated plans to enter this space? Nope.
There you go. Now we can get back to our regularly scheduled program. :-)
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