Cloud computing and virtual worlds: a marriage made in heaven

It didn’t happen by design, but the almost-simultaneous emergence of cloud computing and virtual worlds, like Second Life and other 3D user environments, seem...

It didn’t happen by design, but the almost-simultaneous emergence of cloud computing and virtual worlds, like Second Life and other 3D user environments, seem to be a marriage made in heaven.

This was the topic of a keynote address at the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference that just wrapped up this afternoon at Fort McNair in southwest DC.

FederalNewsRadio’s Max Cacas was there and tells us more.

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