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Social Networking - Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Virtual World Burn-outs Go All Corporate With Qwaq

Qwaq = Webex + SecondLife. Qwaq Forums are 3D spaces geared for enterprise collaboration where users are able to plug in enterprise applications from SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com, design/3-D modeling tools, Web browsers and Microsoft Office applications. Qwaq Forums can be bought either as a hosted service or as a corporate version that could be installed behind an enterprise's firewall. The product is not yet fully launched and pricing is not freely available.

CTO David Smith is a 3D world lifer who says he has been focused on interactive 3D and using 3D for new user environments and entertainment for almost twenty years. He developed the 3D open source package, OpenCroquet, that is the basis for Qwaq.

Our inclination would have been that the corporate world is not ready to deal with each other in 3D World but that premise has partially been proven wrong by the success of Second Life among corporations. Plus there is the din of complaints about Webex so suits might be interested in a cool alternative.

Qwaq was quitely funded recently by KPG Ventures and others but the amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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