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The Archives
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04.28.10Getting It: Virtual Worlds, Enhancing the Human ConditionForgive me if this seems like self-congratulatory back patting, but recent coverage by the Department of Defense of the Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space (AVESS) has another message other than how wonderful we are: it shows how it doesn't take much to move from, um, "how do I move around" to "the use of avatars can have a real impact". And that's a bit of the back story to the project, because although the project manager at the project sponsoring organization (Ashley Fisher at TATRC) knew that there was more to Second Life and virtual worlds than "just a game", she ...
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03.19.10Virtual Worlds and the Military AmputeeProviding peer-to-peer support for the military amputee through virtual world technology is one of those natural "of course" things where the use and the tech matches nearly perfectly. While I've written about this before, our project in partnership with Virtual Ability Inc. continues to be both a powerful demonstration of how virtual worlds like Second Life can provide support environments (whether for the military amputee, patient groups, or around specific interest areas) and a source of insight beyond the technology. The Amputee Virtual Environment Support System (AVESS) was the subject of a brief talk I gave earlier this week on Virtual ...
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