Virtual Worlds, Games, and Simulations: The Challenges of the Next Five Years

Interesting article by Clark Aldrich on Virtual Worlds, Games, and Simulations: The Challenges of the Next Five Years which seems to be thinking on the same lines as us and PIVOTE - for instance "the still under-developed area of virtual worlds as platforms for sims" and "In about three years, we will see the widespread availability of robust and easy to use authoring tools and environments, mostly with the functionality described in the upcoming The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games". We brought PIVOTE to Calrks' attention and he's now added "(and foreshadowed in http://www.pivote.info/)".