Avatars... Again

I'm not sure if it's the weather, or something else, but in one of my circles of friends, I've been fortunate to be within, avatars are the hot topic of late.  Again, a key issue that comes up repeatedly is the standardization of avatars which will allow them to become portable.  Once they are portable, then the avatar industry can really take off.... inclusion of avatars in websites, video games, virtual worlds, your credit card, clothing, log-in screens, etc.  We are just cracking the surface of where we can take avatars.

Mark Wallace has posted some similar thoughts on the subject.  I happen to really agree with his quote below:

I can’t tell you which 3D technology is going to become dominant, whether its AW’s, SL’s, There’s, Multiverse’s or one that’s yet to emerge. But whatever it is (or whatever set of such technologies, more likely), we’ll want a way to navigate between them more seamlessly than we can navigate between even 2D Web sites today.