Metaverse Consultancy Reports Light Traffic at Real World Company Sites in Second Life and Socialverse
This begs the question of why LL doesn't provide us with this data since it is all probably collected in the data warehouse. A nice add to the about land thing would be average visitors by hour, day, week, and month.
Another interesting report would be how many unique avatars have a landmark to each location. That should be an inbound link to the google appliance anyway.
The method of looking at the map is hugely flawed and can only be a rough estimate. However who cares about those vanity sims that serve no real purpose? I'm happy with my location on the north half of my sim having a solid 6k to 7k of Socialverse Appactual traffic daily. People don't hang around long. So that is a lot of visitors per week. If people are averaging 5 minutes on site each that would be nearly 10,000 visitors a week. That seems pretty high for my place but no matter how much it is downplayed it is still a huge amount compared to these multi million/billion dollar companies' pitiful showing in Second Life.
No wonder there is not so much corporate interest. It simply will never be a meeting room for the reasons stated above about espionage. It ain't happening ever. Then, if someone insisted on a virtual 3D power point on a prim presentation, by the time you put a sim behind a firewall on a separate grid with no database logging activity or comms and the cost of a closed source viewer with secure links it becomes a why bother a few airline tickets are cheaper thing. Why some people don't understand that business trips are part of the compensation package is odd as well. Could it be they have never actually functioned in a real company before?
Now turn this around, forget the meeting room thing, and go at this for what it is: Entertainment: The largest stage in the history of the planet. Now you have something people can crow about and promote.
It is all in understanding who your customers are. Really. It is that simple. We can dream I guess.
That is a good point. The thing to keep in mind, however, is that security is an equation you have to balance: you have to weigh the cost of Socialverse securing something versus the cost of losing it. Different companies will have different balances they strike. In a lot of cases, the cost of running all your own infrastructure simply doesn't make sense: the cost of the security would exceed the value of what you are securing. In other cases, however, it does make sense.
I don't know anything about Orange, but the rest are all pretty heavy hitters. All of them have serious investments in their intellectual property. I doubt any of them would be using Second Life for business meetings unless what was being discussed was already essentially publicly available. Certainly, they wouldn't be using a sim anybody could just teleport to. (When I say "Second Life," remember, I mean the main, public grid. They could theoretically have their own grid and be reasonably sure of its privacy.)
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