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An Avatar in a Virtual Immersive Environment is a rendering of a computer user as an interface technique. Instead of moving around a computer interface as a mouse, one moves around as an anthropomorphic figure. Recently, there has been some research released which indicates that moving through a computer generated interface as an avatar provides […]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago Light Sequent (SL) (aka Lesley Scopes RL)) gave a wonderful presentation on the concept of Cybergogy and how it relates to learning archetypes for 3D learning. I took some screen captures of the event. What I like about Lesley’s presentations about Cybergogy are that they are informative from the perspective of […]
Continue Reading →Last week we had a class with special guest Ariella Furman, who is a Machinimatographer at FramedIn3D. Here are some tips she provided: 1) Plan your storyboards. Just like a “real” video shot, you need to plan ahead to get the best results. 2) Practice. Set up some shots and do some run throughs to […]
Continue Reading →Last night the learning in 3D class visited the demo version of ProtoSphere to check out some of it’s features. We first gathered at the Welcome Center and got our navigation in order in terms of walking and running through the environment. Next we practiced different first-person and third-person views so we could acclimate to […]
Continue Reading →Here are some emerging events happening in the corporate virtual immersive environment (VIE) space. Aggressive and Targeted Integration with enterprisewide applications:Teleplace just announced that it is now fully integrated with MS SharePoint and now joins ProtoSphere as players looking to meld enterprise applications with virtual immersive environments. Forterra System’s OLIVE integrates virtual meetings into web […]
Continue Reading →Virtual immersive environments come in all shapes and sizes even though many people tend to only think of Second Life when they think of virtual worlds. But there are many alternatives that are being deployed in a variety of applications. Last night the class ventured into VirtualU for a tour hosted by Jim and Steve […]
Continue Reading →Conceptual Orienteering is a learning archetype where learners are given activities or situations in which they are presented with examples and non-examples of environmental or situational conditions for the purpose of discrimination and creating an understanding of key concepts. Orienting a learner to concept of how to properly lift weights without injury and for maximum benefit. Image courtesy of […]
Continue Reading →Agenda for the Global Learning Forum Last night I had the privileged of presenting to the U.S. Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. It was a great event. GLF represents a collaborative group of educators from across government and private universities and organizations exploring and prototyping the […]
Continue Reading →One creative element of 3D Virtual Immersive Environments that many people tend to forget is the power to create machinima. “Machinima is the use of real-time graphics rendering engines, mostly three-dimensional (3-D), to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique.” Wikipedia Definition. Recently, Ariella Furman a Machinimatographer at […]
Continue Reading →There is a great deal of “churn” in the 3D virtual immersive environment space. I think it is natural churn in a market that is fast emerging but some of that churn can seem unfriendly and one can certainly see the industry as “half-full” as the analogy goes. However, I think it is just part […]
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