Showing posts with label virtual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual. Show all posts

October 10, 2008

A Virtual Forbidden City?

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space & Time

An exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden City

It has been over three years in the making and cost over $3 million, provided by IBM as part of a community programme.

To recreate every building and thousands of major artifacts.

A fully immersive, three-dimensional virtual world that recreates a visceral sense of space and time of this Chinese cultural treasure.

IBM's BladeCenters with Linux Blade Servers are at the heart of this virtual world.



: :The Palace Museum and IBM


Explore here.

October 5, 2008

Why Qwaq?



Is a breakthrough technology also enables persistence combined with the ability for users to be in the same virtual space while working on related but different applications or content. This mirrors the physical world, where people might work together but on their own specific work. This capability has not been available with traditional collaboration tools. For example, web conferencing has meant one person communicating their slides or desktop to others, with limited to no interactivity.
  • Program Management
  • Facilitated Meetings
  • Corporate Training
  • Virtual Office
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