The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport put together the following demo video of their work in Second Life, for presentation in Europe. The demo outlines three ways in which they used the virtual world platform: teleconferencing, rapid prototyping and collaborative engineering environments, training and education.
Virtual World technologies are being adopted by more DOD agencies and contractors every week. This video clearly outlines some of the advantages for virtual prototyping and training in these environments. The presence of defense-oriented agencies in SL and other Virtual Worlds should produce the positive side benefit of improved security for these platforms, something that is needed for widespread business adoption.
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The public collaborative aspects of Second Life constitute the exciting, novel, rapidly expanding juvenile niche that is Second Life. The use of this platform for closed, secret, government, military or corporate purposes is just that — the use of the platform, not the promising global village square that is the true emergent property associated with this technology.