Second Life for Your Health

Posted by Karl Kapp on July 14, 2008

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 that shows how a “branching story” type interaction is used to provide training to students in a medical setting.

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