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03.12.09Virtual Learning Environments at Athabasca UniversitySun Microsystems of Canada Inc. is teaming up with Athabasca University, an online open university in Canada, to create a research center to develop virtual world environments. The new center, called the Immersive Technologies for Education Centre of Excellence (COE), will allow educators to develop 3D learning environments for their online classroom. It will also allow graduate students to study 3D worlds and to learn skills that will apply in the real world. "Immersive education," said Kevin Roebuck, Market Development Manager, e-Learning, of Sun, "combines 3D and virtual reality technology with digital media to immerse and engage students in the ...
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08.22.08Nortel Flips the Switch on Virtual WorldsNortel announced a virtual worlds initiative, developed under the ominous codename Project Chainsaw, and shored up the technology through the purchase on "3D voice" company DiamondWare. Project Chainsaw, dubbed "web.alive", is a "3D Web networking solution that allows users to collaborate, socialize and conduct business in a virtual environment with life-like visual and audio features, within the security of their own corporate networks", according to CNN Money. The purchase of DiamondWare brings 3D spatial sound to their virtual world play as well as for "traditional telephony and conferencing applications, mobile unified communications or for Web 2.0 virtual world environments," according to Keith ...
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06.13.08Second Life Teaching Yesterday’s News, and the Sun RisesThere's nothing like meat space for nuance, conversations on the bus, the level of applause in an audience or lack of it - and at the New Media Consortium conference its been no different - maybe once we're all walking around with expressive avatars or Emotiv headsets or whatever, we'll be able to give off that body language that you can only really feel by being there, and at Princeton this year the body language is a sort of collective foot shuffle when it comes to Second Life. OK...well, first, this is anecdotal. It's not like I ran around taking a ...
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