Yesterday Lockheed announced that it had bought
Croquet simulations learning company 3D Solve. (3D Solve's founding CTO is
David Smith, who is Chief System Architect for the
Croquet Consortium, and CTO of
Qwaq. Consortium point-man
Julian Lombardi is an advisor.) Being Lockheed, the news was carried by financial folks like
CNN and
Merrill Lynch, but I'm most excited by the release carried by
Gamasutra and
Serious Games Source, which is all about Croquet.
This comes on the heels this week of
Cisco blogs about
Qwaq.
I'm old enough to know that all of this should be taken with a grain of salt. But it certainly ain't
bad news, and it gives a lot of credibility to the Croquet
platform. I hope that Croquet folks around the world are able to make good use of this news in setting up their own projects.
This week I
had posted links to some cool new Croquet project movies, but I missed
this somewhat cold one from 3D Solve.