Tuesday, 12 August 2008

AI 36: Gartner says virtual worlds are to grow exponentially


By 2012, Gartner estimates that 70 per cent of organisations will have established their own private virtual worlds and predicts that these internal worlds will have greater success due to lower expectations, clearer objectives and better constraints."

Gartner also believe that “80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life” by 2011.

Health is likely to be a major player in the Virtual Worlds (refer to AI 33 and AI 34).