Over the last few months a lot of attention has been given games and simulations in the training world by the two leading training world journals; T & D and training, the first published by ASTD and the second by Nielsen Business Media publications. I have included two links below. The first is about Second Life. I thought you might enjoy it Sabine.
The second has lots of information about Second Life, Protoshpere, who boasts more professional looking avatars than Second Life, and Forterra whose vice president of marketing claims, "It takes what used to be e-learning and creates one-on-one modules that let people practice what they learn in a context-specific environment." There is another company called Virtual Heroes who has been designing games for the military. Another article in this issue highlights companies that have used games to train, e.g., Cingular/AT&T, the ASAP Bio Pharm Council, Blockbuster Inc, and Learning Tree.
All in all they are interesting articles. Maybe you will be able to find the time to scan through.
http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/51215E61-9C71-49FC-A0D4-BC1818B329A8/12903/76070844.pdf
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/nielsen/training1007/
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Yes, Forterra has been around for a while, but they were primarily with the military. They might have realized the business opportunities by "opening" their platform to the general public once Second Life made it obviously a good buz move.
If you are interested in comparing diverse muve platforms, there are several studies/reports already published that do just that (including Croquet, Open Source Metaverse, There, Active Worlds, OLIVE from Forterra Systems, Interreality, Blender, etc.).
Oz's comparison chart is a good place to start: http://oz.slinked.net/comparechart.php, But VERY outdated (2005). for example, Second Life has voice enabled for free all throughout the grid, and the age limit that OZ mentions is only on the Teen Grid (13-17). The Main Grid is 18+ (no teens allowed)
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