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Interesting Developments in 3D Learning and Collaboration Space

Kapp Notes

Some interesting developments in the 3D Learning and Collaboration Space. First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations.

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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

The student's worked hard and excelled at mastering virtual worlds in theory, design, development and big ideas. See Change is under way at ThinkBalm Linden Labs announces layoffs, appears to be contemplating shuttering Enterprise Edition efforts. And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs.

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Second Life CEO Resigns, Founder Back in Charge

Kapp Notes

Event This just in: Linden Labs, the creator of the 3D virtual world Second Life has announced that company founder Philip Rosedale has been named interim CEO and that Mark Kingdon is stepping down as CEO. This comes just a short time after Linden Labs announced a layoff of 30 percent of its staff.

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Recent Second Life Happenings: Going Corporate

Kapp Notes

Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs , the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. See more at The Linden Prize. Second Life is going corporate.

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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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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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Online Educa Berlin 2011 recap

Challenge to Learn

There is food for thought there and you can take part in the further development of the scenarios, so please join. It is always great to walk underneath the Brandenburger Tor and see the great avenue ‘Unter den Linden’. I’m now in the Ukraine with our development team, working on next years road map for easygenerator.

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