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October 22, 2007
London Games Week Launch Party & VW Forum
The London Games week kicks off on the HMS President on the Thames with a party hosted by SMARTlab, come by for a virtual world mixed reality mashup with Second Life and Forterra's OLIVE, and dance into the night on the boat or in-world, here's the slurl to the dance floor...
Tuesday I will be leading a session at the Enterprise Virtual Worlds workshop, discussing interoperability, security, scalability, implementation, and other key topics for those wanting to get started with using virtual worlds in their enterprise.
Wednesday and Thursday we will be at the Virtual Worlds Forum where we'll be exhibiting with Forterra and excited that Forterra CEO Robert Gehorsam will be delivering a keynote. Come by and say hi!
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October 16, 2007
Conferences Follow up Resources *updated*
Hi!
I have been speaking at quite a few conferences lately and promised to share some of the links I referenced during various speeches and workshops. So, here they are!
We produced the first conference in Europe dedicated to exploring enterprise and education applications for virtual worlds with the Serious Games Institute (SGI) last month. You can access the video and slide archive directly here or the new Serious Games Institute website. We streamed the event into Second Life with the help of Datmedia, the SGI and David Burden of Daden, Ltd (who has generated lots of interest in doing it again!).
We had just over 150 people at the conference and another 150 online. Not bad for a first!
I really enjoyed Dr. Leroy Heinrichs presentation which you can view here, he shared published results showing virtual worlds working as well as or better than physical training for the emergency response training they ran at Stanford Medical School. (You can email presentations to colleagues but this feature doesn't always work in Firefox yet).
My presentation on the various implementation aspects for enterprise use of virtual worlds can be accessed directly here (and can be sent to your mobile phone too. I am curious to how well this works for our overseas viewers, your comments are welcome!).
A live demonstration of the Forterra Systems OLIVE platform was provided by John Burwell, Forterra VP and can be accessed directly here. John showed the retail training and emergency response examples.
Roo Reynolds of IBM posted a nice collection of pictures and comments from the conference on his blog here.
There are also lots of pictures on the SGI site.
Workshops:
Podcasting resources I referenced in the workshop can be viewed on this blog by using the search box on the lower right side.
The video interview on Podcasting, blogging and wiki use at the BBC I did with Nigel Paine, former Chief Learning Officer for the BBC can now be found here . (there are also several presentations there from our annual Seriously Mobile Summit).
My keynote from the Chicago Learning Executives conference was videotaped, I'll add it to the archive when I get a copy. Feel free to email me for the slides in the interim if interested. Update*** A video clip of me discussing virtual worlds for training is embedded below. The .mp3 and slides are now available, I will try to synch them up in the video archive soon.
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