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Thinkbalm is probably the most interesting analyst group I’ve seen on the Immersive Internet field. They just released a Machinima where they present a lot of data on the status of Immersive Internet for Businesses in a very unique way. While the video might be a bit long for the web (9mins) it’s really inspiring!

Thinkbalm‘s Erica Driver just organized a pretty funny event called “Convince the curmudgeon”: a role playing session aiming at convincing Christopher that there is business value in the Immersive Internet.
Lots of amazing ideas and comments during a wild session and overall a really interesting experience including multi-channel communication process and use-case about the immersive Internet (along with a pretty nice list of do’s and don’ts by Sam Driver such as “Don’t talk about virtual world, it’s negative, use immersive internet instead” and such…).
Can’t wait to read Erica’s article on the session
One of my main conclusions is that we definitely need body language and the ability to see a user through its avatar (such as what we did at VR-WEAR ) to give those Immersive Internet a real meaning – and immersive devices would also be more meaningful than the kind of setup required today to access this experience (see the pict below, it’s a bit hectic…)

Erica Driver, which used to work at Forrester and wrote an amazing report called “Web3D the Next Major Internet Wave” moved as an independent analyst a few months ago and created Thinkbalm, an industry analyst firm / think-tank obsessed with helping businesses get advantage of Virtual Worlds.
Today, Thinkbalm published its first report “The Immersive Internet: Make Tactical Moves Today For Strategic Advantage Tomorrow” and which can be downloaded for free on Thinkbalm’s blog.
There are great ideas and visions in there which totally match what we are aiming at through VR-WEAR, this is definitely a must read !

Update: rotfl, my avatar can be seen in the picture p5, yellow one on the back – funny !