Saturday, September 29, 2007

Virtual Worlds: Are we just now realizing late 90s technologies?

Picked this up by an post from Akela Talamasca from the Second Life Insider RSS feed. The article provides a great perspective if you are wondering if a virtual learning environment and the 3D web is really too new pursue.

"Here's a great article on how the roots of today's virtual technologies lie in the distant past -- the late 90s. The post makes great use of screenshots that look remarkably similar to what we have today to make the point that what we have isn't quite as new as many seem to think it is. One way to look at this is that we really haven't progressed at all in a decade's time, but that's merely cosmetic. It's worthwhile to look back at your history to evaluate where you're headed today, but the changes are buried at a level not discernible with the naked eye."


Click here for the article on the Digital Urban blog - written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith