1. Virtual
Worlds
By
Mike
Danielsen
and
Terri
Ertlmeier

2.  Industry
 Business
Failures
 Business
Success
 Training
 Meetings
and
Collaboration
 Simulation
and
Prototyping
 How
To
Get
Started

3.  The
two
big
trends
in
IT
today
are
Cloud
Computing
and
Virtual
Worlds
(VWs).
 They
are
similar
in
that
they
both
rely
on
client
server
architecture
and
both
rely
on
the
server
to
do
the
majority
of
the
work.
 Cloud
Computing
shift
our
typical
computing
jobs
to
a
server
on
the
internet.
 Virtual
Worlds
move
our
communications
and
collaborations
to
a
server
on
the
internet.

5.  When
they
got
set
up
in
Second
Life
they
learned
the
following
lessons:
 Virtual
world
sales
have
nothing
to
do
with
real
world
sales.
 Exposure
was
poor
due
to
sparse
population
density.
 Traditional
approaches
to
marketing
do
not
work
in
Virtual
Worlds.
 The
entry
barrier
was
difficult
for
many
people.

6.  Today
businesses
have
found
three
main
uses
for
Virtual
Worlds
to
improve
the
business
practices.
 These
have
little
to
do
with
marketing
but
a
lot
to
do
with
enterprise.
 The
three
uses
are:
▪ Training
▪ Meetings
and
collaboration
▪ Simulation
and
prototyping

7.  Over
200
universities
have
made
a
presence
in
Second
Life
including:
 Princeton
 Rice
University
 Pepperdine
University
 University
of
Derby
(UK)
 Vassar
 the
Open
University
(UK)
 Harvard
 SUNY
 University
of
Texas
(San
Antonio)
 Stanford
Case
Study:
Children’s
Memorial
Hospital
Chicago
 MIT
Uses
Second
Life
to
Conduct
Emergency
Training
 and
many
others.
Posted
by
Amanda
Linden
on
Oct
7,
2009

9.  Creating
product
prototypes
in
the
virtual
world
allows
one
to
test
concepts
and
gauge
human
feedback.
 Avatars
bring
the
human
factor
into
simulations.
 Virtual
prototypes
can
be
developed
quickly
and
inexpensively.
 Superior
3D
visualization
of
processes
and
simulations.
 Virtual
worlds
provide
the
ability
to
walk
through
simulations
as
they
are
occurring.
 Non
interruptive
testing
of
solutions
where
real
world
testing
is
not
possible
due
to
costs,
scheduling
and/or
risk.

10.  http://www.teleplace.com/
 http://www.activeworlds.com/
 http://www.protonmedia.com/
 https://lg3d-­‐wonderland.dev.java.net/
 http://www.forterrainc.com/
 http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
 http://work.secondlife.com/en-­‐US/

11. 1. Go
to
http://secondlife.com/
2. Create
an
account.
(avatar)
3. Download
and
install
viewer
4. Login
to
Second
Life

12.  A
good
computer
with:
 2-­‐4
Gigs
of
RAM
 Good
3D
graphics
 High
speed
internet
 Headset
 Highly
recommended:
 Space
Navigator
 http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigator.php