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A Lot Happening in the 3D Space

Kapp Notes

VBS2 is a fully interactive, three-dimensional, PC-based synthetic environment specifically developed for military training, mission rehearsal and analysis.According to Chris Chris Brannigan, of Caspian, the "main driver of the partnership is to bring rapid authoring and thin client delivery to VBS2 and therefore into the military simulations arena."

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Second Life Happenings: CEO Steps Down (again)

Kapp Notes

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. He said many longtime Second Life users are angry at the recent decisions by the company that runs the service, Linden Lab. He has done this before and then come back.

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Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon

Kapp Notes

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). We expect more than 5,000 attendees at VWBPE10 ( www.vwbpe.org ) with participants from every continent,” she continued.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life

Mark Oehlert

It certainly isnt Linden Labs responsibility to entertain you - that has never been their business model, all they have done is provide a 3D virtual world development platform where the only limitation (outside of number of prims) to what you can create is your own vision. where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Using Virtual Worlds in the Conspiracy to Create an ah-ha Moment

Kapp Notes

Yesterday I also spoke to a client about ethics training.wouldn't a conspiracy to create an ah-ha moment be an excellent goal for the design of ethics training or diversity training or sales training, etc. Instead we seem to be involved in something a lot less exciting, interesting or even educational.

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CAC: Penn State-Bart Pursel

Kapp Notes

Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.) For example an island is analogous to a server.

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A whole new world

E-Learning Provocateur

Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. Consider the following possibilities for employees : Virtual training sessions. Second Life also has its own economy. Road blocks.