{"id":937,"date":"2009-06-02T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2009-05-28T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:26:28","slug":"business-value-of-the-immersive-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Business value of the immersive internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just out last week: a survey report from Erica and Sam Driver of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkbalm.com\/\">ThinkBalm <\/a>on the business value of immersive internet technologies and applications.  By &#8220;immersive internet&#8221; they mean a culture developing around a media-rich cloud of emerging technologies including virtual worlds, mobile devices, social apps, the semantic web, and gaming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/thinkbalm.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/thinkbalm-immersive-internet-business-value-study-final-5-26-091.pdf\">Here&#8217;s the report (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key findings are nicely summarized <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkbalm.com\/2009\/05\/26\/thinkbalm-publishes-business-value-study\/\">here.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkbalm.com\/2009\/05\/26\/thinkbalm-publishes-business-value-study\/\"> <\/a>This report supports our own findings at FXPAL in experimenting with different uses of several different virtual world platforms: &#8220;The most common barriers to adoption are target users having inadequate hardware, corporate security restrictions, and getting users interested in the technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just out last week: a survey report from Erica and Sam Driver of ThinkBalm on the business value of immersive internet technologies and applications. By &#8220;immersive internet&#8221; they mean a culture developing around a media-rich cloud of emerging technologies including virtual worlds, mobile devices, social apps, the semantic web, and gaming. Here&#8217;s the report (PDF). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[28,327],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}