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Yesterday a few students and myself sat for an interview with some folks from ProtonMedia to discuss virtual immersive environments for learning and collaboration. The finished piece will be posted in a while on the blog over at ProtonMedia but, in the meantime, I wanted to post some behind the scene images of the interviewers […]
Continue Reading →Stop, proceed with caution. While I think there are many legitimate reasons why an organization should partake in virtual immersive environments (VIEs) for learning and collaboration, there are also some “less-than-comfortable” reasons organizations are leaning in this direction. Many times these reasons aren’t discussed but they are just as valid in the minds of many. […]
Continue Reading →Here is a companion post to two previous posts on the topic: Alternatives to Second Life Alternatives to Second Life Continued If you know of more, please feel free to add in the comments section. web.alive Short “flyby” of Nortel’s web.alive. This is Nortel’s entry into the 3D space. web.alive is an enterprise ready, network […]
Continue Reading →Immersed in a learning environment (notice, no bulleted list of objectives) An important virtual world design principle is that the participant (not the teacher) must be positioned at the center of the learning experience–a 360 degree immersion in an learning experience. Thus the term Virtual Immersive Environment (VIE) Unlike the classroom-based “Sage on the Stage” […]
Continue Reading →Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs, the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. Second Life is going corporate. First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. As described: The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD for an innovative […]
Continue Reading →Here is an interesting video showing how Forterra Systems created a virtual operation’s center. As described by a press release: Often called war or situation rooms these virtual centers allow representatives from different branchs of government and business to collectively monitor, assess, and respond to events. An event can be a natural disaster like a […]
Continue Reading →Last night, we held class in ProtoSphere. Here are some screen captures from the class.. Having a discussion in the Spectrum Room in ProtoSphere Data Visualization Room One of the neatest rooms was the Data Visualization room which has examples of how data can be visualized and utilized in a 3D environment in ways that […]
Continue Reading →One of the great things about what I do is that I get to interact with wonderful people working on innovative projects. So the other day I got together with John, Gina Schreck of Synapse3Di, Abby, Michelle and Brian who is author of the Cognitive Technologies blog (all pictured below). We discussed how to use […]
Continue Reading →Here are three examples of the power of Virtual Immersive Environments __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and GadgetsRecommended Games and GadgetsRecommended BooksContent Guide
Continue Reading →Dipity Flipbook view of virtual worlds timeline. Here is a nifty resource for looking at the development of virtual worlds over time. It is created at the website Dipity which is an aggregator of content with a twist, the twist is that the content can have meta-data added to it to add meaning and to […]
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