Last week, Avaya announced web.alive, an “immersive collaboration platform that uses personalized avatars and rich, spatial audio and visuals to expand on current modes of conferencing and collaboration.” It is offered both as a cloud-based service as well as a standalone installation for in – house deployment. The cloud service offering is a very convenient method to use this product for inter - business purposes.
It brings on the table attractive characteristics, including a new 3D audio engine, built-in collaboration tools, integration with other Avaya products and an analytics suite among other things. All these features greatly enhance the online collaboration experience. The classic teleconference notion is getting a step ahead, becoming more virtualized. Meetings feel like playing a massive multiplayer online game as you may see on the following videos.
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The user gets the feeling of playing Second Life or World of Warcraft type of game, but in a manner that actually facilitates and enhances business activities. A free demo is available to try this.
I must admit I am extremely impressed by this product and especially its potential. It introduces a radical change to the way business communications work and could be the foundation of a fully virtualized working environment in the future.
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