Qwaq delivers 3D collaboration at Intel

By Vivek | September 28th, 2007 at 10:28 pm ET         

3-D based collaboration software developer Qwaq is slowly making in inroads into the enterprise market. Before we talk about the big news, for those not following the startup, I have written about it few times earlier including the post - Qwaq can make WebEx history. In lesser words, Qwaq is SecondLife for enterprises with much to offer and a real team performance gains that it can deliver. Coming back to the news, earlier this week Qwaq made a joint announcement with Intel according to which Miramar, a 3-D information space technology originally developed by Intel Corporation?s research labs, will be brought to market by Qwaq.

Since I didn’t get a chance to talk with Qwaq team earlier this week, I won’t try to interpret the meaning of the above statement. So, talking about the basics, Intel is/will be using the Qwaq technology internally to improve their teamwork ? it will enable information, which is now only available to individual departments or divisions, to be easily accessed and shared across the enterprise, in dynamic unified views.

Besides that, Qwaq and Intel plan to work together to integrate Miramar technology into this new cross-platform edition of Qwaq Forums, which is expected be available next year. As for Miramar’s backgrounder, the software with immersive 3D and 2D components was originally developed by Intel Architecture Labs aimed at increasing the productivity of distributed enterprises by enabling new information visualization capabilities across distributed teams.