IBM, Second Life Demo Virtual World Interoperability
17 Jul 2008 - 09:42:20

By Antone Gonsalves Tue Jul 8, 9:00 PM ET IBM and Linden Lab, which operates Second Life, said Tuesday that have demonstrated virtual world interoperability by teleporting avatars between Second Life and an entirely different metaverse running on an OpenSim server. The two companies are heralding the feat as a milestone, because it shows online virtual worlds could someday stop operating as closed environments and let avatars travel The development teams IBM and Linden lab hope that the they developed for interoperability will eventually lead to an open standard that would enable users to cross virtual worlds as easily as people move from one to another today. "Interoperability is a key component of the 3D Internet and an important step to enabling individuals and organizations to take advantage of virtual worlds for commerce, collaboration, education, operations and other business applications," Colin Parris, VP of digital convergence at IBM, The two partners plan to the new technology on the Web site an open that has developed a draft of a protocol to make Second Life accessible to other virtual worlds. The extensions used to connect Second life to the OpenSim will be made available to the community and the OpenSim community. OpenSim, built by is an open source server designed for running 3D virtual worlds. Linden Lab is opening up a test area on its for organizations interested in developing the extensions further. "IBM and Linden Lab both suppor...

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