An Early Adopter’s Quick Guide To Web.Alive « Caleb Booker
(FYI: We’ve launched the IBM Business Analytics Center – which is also based on web.alive and designed to support our Business Analytics & Optimization services. The Mellanium site mentioned here has examples of very high-resolution models as seen in this clip)
“The interface was obvious. Fixing up my avatar was easy. The voice just worked. Full-screen mode just worked. We could easily hand files to each other, view PowerPoint and fully rendered web pages with Flash support, and snap privacy settings in the room on and off with a click. All of this right in the web browser.
I took a tour of Mellanium’s environment again today, and what really struck me was the level of detail visible. I was looking at this highly detailed model of the Titanic with textures so good I could zoom in on the knots in the wood. That’s impressive, but what was even better was that I could glance across the room and see a fully rendered locomotive and old fighter plane.”