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Tag Archives: Virtual Worlds
Along the virtuality continuum
Over the coming months, I’ll be using this site to share and construct some hopefully useful thoughts about why it is that ‘traditional’ virtual reality platforms with 3D graphics are not being taken up by the services sector, while augmented … Continue reading
26 points about virtual worlds for 2011
Here are some ruminations from my research project, Immersive Internet Australia , commissioned by the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre and Swinburne University of Technology. The list is neither exhaustive, nor final. Comments welcome. The immersive Internet is a generic term for … Continue reading
New Report: Immersive Internet Australia: Education
I’ve posted my report, (the full PDF version is located under the Immersive Internet Australia tab, profile on education), profiling Australian educators’ use of virtual worlds and other immersive technologies. Hopefully, it is something of a roadmap for those contemplating such … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Immersive Internet Australia
Tagged Australia, education, immersive Internet, Virtual Worlds
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Immersive Learning: on or off the boil?
Immersive Learning was very much on the agenda in Australia in 2008, as this video made by Educationau enthusiastically demonstrates. A group from Gippsland TAFE, in Victoria, drafted a set of protocols for immersive learning here but, like Educationau, the … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Education
Tagged Australia, education, online learning, Virtual Worlds
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Swinburne University’s Koala Island
Thrilled to be using Swinburne University’s ‘Koala Island‘ in Second Life for an event with VicRoads. We’ll be introducing them to virtual environments. Roads, urban planning, their own distributed work force… it makes sense to start exploring a swag of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, enterprise, Second life
Tagged Australia, business models, collaboration, enterprise, Second life, Secondlife, Swinburne university, Virtual Worlds
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Troughs and crests
Thinkbalm, the immersive Internet business analysts released this statement today: ‘We believe that mainstream adoption of immersive technologies in the workplace—virtual worlds, immersive learning environments, and virtual event platforms—is a matter of when, not if. But these technologies are still … Continue reading
A little plug : Journal of Virtual Worlds Research now out
A little plug With co-editor Serge Soudoplatoff, I wish to recommend the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Volume 2, Number 4: Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds, to you. It is now available on line. http://www.jvwresearch.org/index.php?_cms=1266812877 Introductory … Continue reading