Let me tell you the story of a great challenge : showing how high technology products such as Saint Gobain’s ones could be so useful to the world as they are… transparent !
We decided to create some animations that are clear enough to explain what a transparent product is made for… Please feel free to come and visit us in Saint-Gobain Glass’ building.
In fact, to be honest, the main reason SGG is now in Second Life is to share ideas and invent their next generation of products with a great focus on sustainable development. We’ve already planned to run virtual meetings between SGG’s experts and eco-friendly resident. The idea for SGG’s experts is to share about their products and technology, and to collect comments or ideas on how the next generation products should be, to take into account even more than today the carbon footprint issue. The residents’ feedback will be very useful for both Saint-Gobain Glass’ Marketing and Research & Development Departments.
By the way, other actions are already intended, starting in September 2008, with virtual/real actions for the preservation of our planet.
Please stay tuned if you are interested in this kind of projects…
Damn, IBM has just released the Ad we would have loved to have done ! ☺
I guess the main message is “ Stop talking about what your company could do in Virtual Worlds… and just do it!”
This is exactly what we thought, about a year ago, at Stonfield InWorld. Since we started this company, we have explored many Virtual Worlds, set up some great events in-world, designed some superb places… and more than that, we have provided some Virtual World solutions where we even talked about Return on Investment with our clients!
Of course, we sometimes took the wrong road ( which prevented us from taking our clients there !), but, above all, we really pushed ahead with our two favorite topics: e-Learning and e-Commerce.
The ITC Project (Immersive Training Center) is well on its way, as is the Shopping Attitude project (e-Commerce), which is close to being released !
IBM is leader in practically all the markets the company targets. The Company’s very last news from Virtual Worlds 2008 in New-York yesterday are awesome. IBM is also Stonfield InWorld’s client, often its business partner and sometimes its supplier. We have dozens of friends there (and maybe even one of my best friends !) and are honored to have this excellent business relationship.
But at the end of the day, what makes me more excited with this note is the determination of the first IT company in the world, to evangelize a market that so few of us understand and support.
When Stonfield InWorld says “Virtual Worlds are one of the Kill Apps of the Internet of the Future” , I can understand some people don’t trust us so easily… but when IBM says that, people should ask themselves why is Big Blue so confident ?
By the way, I would like to quote a young guy, retired from the IT market, who said some months ago in Paris – France : “We are going to bring the Web from the second to the third dimension, a dimension where you’ll be able to walk through cities, shops…” Bill Gates.
Euh… Bill ? I know you were wainting for us but we are ready now, you can start moving !
Since launching Stonfield InWorld last year, we have definitively decided to communicate for real with you (the World), and not only send press releases about the company news.
Stonfield InWorld is a French agency specializing in Virtual Worlds.
More than just saying what we do, we wanted to tell you more about our culture and our values, to share some interesting stuff directly from our labs, to challenge our ideas, to present some business cases and the amazing projects we’re creating for our clients, …
And we did it !
But in French
As most of the people involved in Virtual Worlds do not speak French as we do, we thought about two solutions : You have to learn French or we have to blog in English.
After many months of meetings and conference calls to decide which one of these two solutions would be the most efficient, we decided to launch this blog.
But to get you started, you may need some keywords to subscribe to this blog ?
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