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Happenings in the Corporate Virtual World Space

Kapp Notes

Here are some emerging events happening in the corporate virtual immersive environment (VIE) space. Forterra System's OLIVE integrates virtual meetings into web based intranets, extranets or portals, and can assure a user's identity based on authentication systems like LDAP. Also, Activeworlds turned 15 this year!

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Not a Good Week for the Virtual Worlds Space

Kapp Notes

First, Metaplace announced it will be closing its virtual doors on January 1, 2010 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. This means that a user created "portal" into a virtual world can be accessed from web location. Here is an article that describes some of the rumors on the subject, IS FORTERRA HEADED FOR ACQUISITION?

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Where the military is at the forefront, and where it is seeing the most value, is in realms such as virtual training. The Department of Defense disagrees with you.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts. The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts.

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Using Games and Avatars to Change Learner Behavior

Kapp Notes

A recent article in Wired presented an interesting research finding. Flying around a virtual world as a superhero made subjects nicer in the physical world. Any participant who did NOT help had been in the virtual world as a passenger in the helicopter. Also see my article Can a Video Game Make Someone Nice?

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3 Advanced Gamification Strategies To Use In 2021

Tesseract Learning

Many are turning to virtual training in place of classroom training. Real-world games have backstories and cut scenes that keep players engaged throughout the game. Storytelling adds to the intrigue of a game and fires the neurons and hormones in the brain of the player. Storytelling—The Next Level.

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Mobile App Trends for 2018

Origin Learning

We will see numerous crypto-currency clones mushrooming around the world and a few them will still find followers and users. Most major LMS-players offer an ‘app’ variant of their product. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Expect mobile security apps by key players to flood the market this year. Digital Payments.