I had a nice talk with Pherekydes Beaumont about (Weblin and) embedding applications into Second Life. But then, later on, I found that I had been wrong, for a long time. IBM is wrong too. Here’s why:

Pherekydes was right, when he demanded the application in-world, not the SL-Screen a plugin of your calendar client. And I was blinded by old GUI metaphors. We need the future of applications in-world, because the beauty of Second Life shines there.

Since the frustration about what a bummer HTML on a prim actually is, I’ve been thinking, that it would eventually be the better to just keep the interactive application stuff on the good old personal computer flat screen, where it belongs, where it was designed for, and stream it round robin onto the shared media screen (like later, or so). Hey, it would surely end in a mess if there were more than one Avi to type or point and click at the same time. Keep the flat apps where they are now, then switch the screen, and someone else gets the Talking StickInput Device.

OK, that’s plain wrong.

IBM just launched a press release that they are integrating OpenSim in their Lotus Sametime product. A few days ago, on massively there was a post, that Rivers Run Red are building a workgroup application where one can meet in Second Life for some immersive tasks. Sounds cool, eh? But it is wrong. DoubleYou:RonG.

• The Oh, I’ll send it in a second,
• the hey, just refresh your screen,
• the whoops sorry, I snatched your mouse pointer,
• the let’s talk about that — later,
  
• the was that your concept? I redesigned it while you were offline,
• the was that your concept? I redesigned it while I was offline,
• the my-machine :
  
• wrong.

Application in the center…

• The togetherness,
• the Move your ass, and your mind will follow,
• the what do you think
• the thinking the same because we point in the same direction,
• the I’ll do the second floor and we meet in the middle,
• the come, I’ll show you,
• the Loose Coupling,
• the flow,
• The total immersion.

…surrounded by a circle of Avatars.
Pherekydes was right.

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