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Here is an interesting interview Ron Burns, CEO of Protonmedia did with Les Jordan, CTO of the Life Sciences Industry Unit at Microsoft. Listen to what Les says about “virtual collaboration” interesting information.
Continue Reading →Here is an interesting move in the virtual world space. ProtonMedia and Kaplan EduNeering recently integrated their respective technologies to create a new way for life sciences organizations to meet regulatory and compliance regulations. The companies have combined ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere virtual immersive environment (VIE) with Kaplan EduNeering’s ComplianceWire learning management system. With this integration, a company can now […]
Continue Reading →Episodic memory is information stored in person’s long term memory that receives and stores information about temporally dated episodes or events and temporal-spatial relations among those events. In other words, episodic memory contains information about life experiences–information that is associated with a particular time or place. The information that you were in Philadelphia for New […]
Continue Reading →Most Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Games are similar. Will Wright was quoted in a post at New World Notes Will Wright on the Future of User-Generated Online Game Worlds (Circa 2002) as saying: The main limitations on the MMORPG market really seem to be self-imposed: Most developers can’t shake the fantasy/sci-fi mindset or conceive […]
Continue Reading →Below are some interview questions I was asked the other day. I ran out of time and promised to post them on my blog. 1. Metrics are key, love to hear more about that. The metrics or measurements we need to use in 3D virtual immersive environments must be the same we use in physical […]
Continue Reading →Check out my newest whitepaper titled Compliant Collaboration & Learning in Virtual Immersive Environments The whitepaper describes how life science companies are effectively leveraging virtual worlds to successfully facilitate collaboration and training. Here is a sneak peak at some of the content: Three-dimensional virtual immersive environments created on a computer and rendered in three-dimensions allow […]
Continue Reading →Event Last week, ProtonMedia made a formal announcement about a project I first reported on in September of this year that ProtoSphere, the 3D enterprise collaboration and learning tool, is now fully integrated with Microsoft’s Lync Server 2010. The Lync server is a software product that unifies enterprise voice, instant messaging and web-, audio- and […]
Continue Reading →Another question related to serious games and immersive learning simulations: “What are the shortcomings in the scholarship/research around Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations?“ One of the biggest shortcomings is how comparative research is conducted. Everyone wants to do a study comparing serious games/immersive learning simulations with classroom or online instruction to see which is better. Please, […]
Continue Reading →This week I am visiting Canada to speak at the Canadian Society of Training and Development (CSTD) Conference I am doing two sessions and a book signing: 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm Role of Games and Simulations in Learning–where I will provide insights into the research that impacts games and simulations. What does the research […]
Continue Reading →The other day, I discovered an interesting article, Presence Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Immersive World, which describes an educational approach for conducting a learning event in a virtual immersive environment. As the abstract to the article indicates: Presence Pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that is grounded in social […]
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