Roo Reynolds, one of the very cool Emerging Technology guys from IBM Hursley (also one of IBM’s Metaverse Evangelists), recently posted on the eightbar blog about his SketchUp to Second Life exporting script. Along with others in the team, he’s been looking at ways to build objects more easily using simple desktop tools, rather than creating things entirely in-world.

The story propagated to the usual Second Life-related sources like 3pointD and Second Life Insider (Roo has been keeping a list). Now, it finally made Slashdot.

Incidentally, this is another demonstration of how IBM is taking a serious look at MMO environments and how they can be useful in a business context. Some of the objects that we might want to build to support business events could be easier to create using desktop 3D modelling tools initially.