The Matrix For Businesses 88
An anonymous reader writes "The idea of using virtual reality and gaming technologies to create training exercises and business simulations has been around for years. But recent advances in computer graphics, interfaces, and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games have made it commercially viable to pursue simulations in the business world. Novel, a venture-backed startup company, is about to launch a new MMO role-playing game, called Empire & State, with an unusual goal: to use the technology and the lessons it learns from the game to create simulations for big companies that want to improve their human resources and hiring efficiencies. Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario. That's the goal, but Novel will face challenges of all sorts — business, social, and technical — in its efforts to sell MMO technologies to the corporate world."
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Today's Dilbert [dilbert.com], quite on-topic!
lol, let the firings commence! (Score:4, Funny)
I can see it now....someone says something dumb, Frank from Accounting comes over to their side of the conference table, jumps up on it and proceeds to tea bag them.
Yeah, MMO-like corporate worlds could be fantastic.
Game Description (Score:3, Funny)
". . . but you'll need real world skills to be successful."
*sigh*
But I play video games because I DON'T have real world skills.
Re:Kobayashi Maru (Score:4, Funny)
This summary sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sooo.... (Score:3, Funny)
Get 1337 hax now! (Score:2, Funny)
Your mind makes it real (Score:5, Funny)
Neo: If you're fired in the Matrix, are you unemployed here?
Morpheus: The body cannot receive a paycheck without the mind. Well, except government jobs, but you get my point.
Re:Kobayashi Maru (Score:3, Funny)
FPS (Score:1, Funny)
"... to create simulations for big companies that want to improve their human resources and hiring efficiencies."
So it's some kind of First Person Shooter?
Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? (Score:2, Funny)
No wonder why nothing ever gets done at Linden Lab, people who work there don't even know what the others are doing.
Except for the Linden Labs Ministry of Truth. They know where your house lives.
The really question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Will I be able to grief my boss?
Oblig. quote (Score:4, Funny)
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
World of Workcraft (Score:3, Funny)
This seems pretty much exactly like an old parody video that was out a while back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmRwlg23Qc [youtube.com]
KHAAAAN! (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario.
Sounds like the Kobayashi Maru scenario [memory-alpha.org] to me, just without any of the fun.