Teleplace

"Virtual-world technologies provide a complete application collaboration solution that enables companies to bring together information and live data and video feeds from internal and field operations, and create accurate 3-D virtual representations of rigs and other drilling and production equipment." Read the article >

"'The potential for cost-savings is enormous,' said Douglas Maxwell, the technical lead for the project. Moreover, by going virtual, the NUWC could save the expense and the time of having Navy individuals travel to its Newport, Rhode Island-location to try out a mock-up." Read the article >

"There's loads of good reasons not to travel for business. But until recently there has not been many good reasons to use collaboration software to supplant those face-to-face meetings. However, one excellent alternative to travel is [Teleplace], a service that creates a very life-like virtual meeting area in the cloud. It's an exciting, interactive working environment for groups." Read the article >

Startup of the Week: "Teleplace nails the trifecta of hip IT technologies: It's a software-as-a-service offering that combines enterprise collaboration with an interface like Second Life. Users create avatars and meet in a virtual 3-D environment to share and edit documents and use corporate applications." Read the article >

"Teleplace has tried to create a reasonably priced, easy-to-use service for organizations such as FX Palo Alto Laboratory, owned by Fuji Xerox." Read the article >

"Teleplace's technology helps employees collaborate in virtual meeting rooms." Read the article >

"Billed as a 'virtual spaces for real work,' Teleplace is a user-friendly enterprise-level application built on the Croquet open-source virtual worlds platform." Read the article >