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Here are some interesting videos showing how Second Life can be used to design and deliver health related training and actual client support within a virtual world. This one is focused on nursing education. This one demonstrates various views of how a virtual platform can help mental health and other patients. Here is a video […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Creating an Avatar in Google’s Lively. Ok, so Google did create Google 3D Earth with some pretty cool 3D features as a venture into 3D worlds but now they are jumping in with both feet and offering (for free) a product called Lively. Here is an article on the release called Google Launches Virtual Reality […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Thanks to SL Tips for pointing me in the direction of this interesting article in the Washington Post. Here is a story titled Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing that explains how a sub-committee in congress got together to experience a virtual world. According to the article: The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Once again I am teaching a class using virtual worlds, this class “Learning in 3D” will include the use of both ProtoSphere and Second Life. The quick six week class will cover just the basics of navigating in 3D worlds, building a small structure and learning about the different type of environments available. The first […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Public health officials from the California Department of Health Services have created a massive online virtual training program. Researchers from the University of California-Davis Health System re-created a 3-D model of the California Exposition and State Fair in Second Life and conducted the training within that environment. Here is how it worked. Virtual patients flowed […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Here is a great video providing a broad perspective on all types of virtual worlds. Well Done!Sharon Burns. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and GadgetsRecommended Games and GadgetsRecommended BooksContent Guide
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Leave a Comment (4) →Check out the operating room in 3D. Here is an example of using a 3D world as a back drop for creating a video to highlight desired changes or to show a “What-If” scenario. As the article Virtual Worlds Case Study–Second Health states: The explicit outcomes of the project were three videos, each portraying the […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Not only can 3D worlds be used for the recreation of physcial spaces (not the best use) but they can also be used for “other worldly” interfaces…one such example is the visualization of information in ways not prevously possible. Visualizing 3D dataCheck out this article Visualization of Statistics in Virtual Reality As the article states: […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Here is this Month’s ASTD Big Question: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →A group of avatars in a corporate virtual world wondering what is going on?Organizations seem to rush into virtual worlds with little planning or forethought and then wonder why their virtual world experience was a failure. In fact, according to the technology analyst firm Gartner, nine out of 10 virtual world projects fail within 18 […]
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