Tatery Nino takes her guess why Linden Lab is working on inter-grid teleportation and predicts that soon enough we might see CorpGrid – Second Life grid dedicated for corporate and governmental use.
Safe. Sanitized. Quiet — where the only content is made by businesses for their own use, or for display or conferences. A sober place of business, events and advertising (if they can entice people to come and visit — which doubtless, some will). And none of those embarrassing users native to the Agni grid.
It would be the fourth of Linden Lab's grids. So far we have Agni (the main one), Teen and Beta Grid. While Beta grid is understandably on its own and Teen grid is a matter of discussions, CorpGrid sounds as a weird idea.
Why don't they just make another continent? Set of sims that will be dedicated to business use, with adequate buildings, neighbourhoods, even shops that will target the residents there. Even different physics can be implemented, though hardly that business use needs that. But, of course there are different reasons why Lindens want biz people to be on different grid not just on different continent.
Sure, a main-grid resident has to teleport to visit your CorpGrid simulator – if you even allow them, but they have to do that anyway on the regular grid, and here as a CorpGrid non-native they turn up without their appearance and content. Maybe a native of the Agni grid doesn't even have permissions to create or upload content onto the CorpGrid.
Old story about kinky content is rolling again. What if somebody teleports there with a pair of poseballs in their inventory, let alone wearing silks or mini-skirt? What if that business girl is wearing garters, stockings and a skin with brazilian shave under skirt? Will the stock market collapse?
I'd rather ask how many residents will find that teleporting somewhere and being stripped to Ruth with an empty inventory is too much of a compromise? Without appereance and content, I don't need teleport, I can simply open another account and log on a different grid just the same as I do that now with OpenSim. Don't bother making all that software.
Sure, if business people wants it that way, that's OK, let them have it. They can have their secluded space but CorpGrid will hardly have advertising use, because very few of the consumer residents will come there. That is the price of the clean world.
It will be interesting to see how Linden Lab will handle the sacrifice of what is second life's main value. In the last five years (and that is a lot of time on the Internet) people are working on their virtual selves. Virtual identity, all those stories manifested in the appearances and content of our inventories is what makes second life an environment that is so valuable. Now, they want to experiment if those are not that important. Maybe it's the crappy 3D graphics and spatial voice? Well, I wouldn't place my bets on that.
What do you think? Will Lindens try their luck in getting a piece of corporate cake with another separate grid? How that experiment will turn out?
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