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The Archives
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06.28.09Getting Serious About Training, Learning and Collaboration: Launch of 3DTLC Web SiteShow Initiative has expanded its family of on-line blogs with the launch of the 3DTLC.Net Web site. According to the release: To support the growing community using virtual worlds for training, learning and collaboration, we have created 3DTLC.net, a new blog focusing on timely issues, trends and best practices of business applications of virtual worlds technologies. 3DTLC-related news that would have previously surfaced in VirtualWorldsNews.com will now be available on 3DTLC.net so please set your bookmarks and RSS feeds to 3DTLC.net. 3DTLC.net coverage will include detailed interviews, analysis, trends and news, with the goal of assisting corporate customers of 3DTLC-related technologies and ...
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05.25.09US Navy Teams Up With QwaqWe've already reported on the Naval Underseas Warfare Center (NUWC), a virtual home where members of the US Navy can train on a virtual submarine. Now Virtual Worlds News has the inside scoop on the Navy's upcoming training sessions that will be held in a virtual world built by Qwaq using their Qwaq Forums, a "secure virtual workspace that combines voice, video and chat communications with multi-application and document sharing." According to an interview with a team leader at the NUWC, cost savings is one of the main selling points of using a virtual training space. "A lot of ROI is looking ...
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05.25.09Quick Link: New England B.B. Vouches for SLThe New England Business Bulletin recently published a primer on how virtual training spaces, and 3D worlds in general, are being used by corporations and are one of the growth areas in this recession. The article cites a number of corporations that are using Second Life as a training playground: IBM (which the author's note have saved in the hundreds of thousands of dollars from virtual training), Michelin, and Xerox, among others. Scott Ahrens, a UMass Dartmouth professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, notes that there are three main areas where Second Life is being used. "It ...
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04.26.09Where Virtual Worlds are Going: Why is the New What, How is for Tomorrow (Report on 3DTLC)I was going to live blog the 3DTLC conference and take lots of detailed notes on the case studies and panel discussions but then got distracted by the Twitter feed of the show which was kind of exciting - I felt like I was at Metanomics casting out pithy comments in the back chat and feeling witty (which isn't the same as BEING witty, of course) except that I wished the panelists could WATCH the back chat - nothing like rattling them with a few comments to throw them off message right? In any case, it wasn't like my first virtual ...
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04.07.09CNN on Second Life Medical TrainingCNN - whose budget for virtual world reporting has, apparently, not yet been cut - recently covered the training initiatives at Imperial College London. Photo: Daneel Ariantho According to the report, third-year medical students are engaged in "game-based" learning using Second Life as the conduit to virtually visit with patients, order X-rays, and access respiratory readings. There is no virtual surgery - at least not yet - as the learning is geared more towards hospital protocol and administrative duties. "This sort of research is vital if we're going to make sure tomorrow's doctors are as well-trained as you and I want them ...
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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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03.05.09Team-Building Virtual PlatformFinnish company TeamingStream has developed a team-building, leadership training game targeted to the corporate learning industry that was launched in December of 2008, according to the Metaverse Journal. Novicraft is a collaborative game developed by learning scientists, human resource development specialists, and serious game developers. Emphasizing the collaborative tools of the game, TeamingStream CEO, Petri Ahokangas, told Metaverse that, "In a nutshell, all major challenges of the modern workplace have been modeled to the game and can be practiced in a safe environment in a cost effective way. NoviCraft is not a simulation, it is real collaboration between people which ...
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11.18.08Navy Goes VirtualAccording to Mass High Tech, the US Navy has created a virtual version of its Naval Underseas Warfare Center in Second Life, the latest in a string of military-related activity in Second Life. The island is intended to duplicate the 128-acre R&D center located in Newport, Rhode Island and replicates buildings, exhibits, and the USS Virginia submarine, as shown above. Mass High Tech also reports that "NUWC said the virtual base is intended to eventually enable remote users, such as Navy sailors, to use their Second Life avatars to control actual tactical hardware/software via video networking capabilities while immersed in the ...
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08.05.08The Military on Second Life: ‘An Awkward Interface’The U.S. Army would like to use MMOs to train future generals on strategic thinking. Call it a "first person-thinker" said Major Kyle Burley to Wired. The piece was picked up by Virtual World News which noted the "benefits of virtual worlds for the military--cost savings, safety, flexibility, effective measurements, and more--and plenty of people within the military are already exploring their options." Wired, in its wisdom, asked Burley whether Word of Warcraft might fit the bill (I mean, it has the word War in the title right?) to which Burley calmly explained: "No self-respecting colonel will take all those dwarves, mages ...
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