Wandering Yaffle's _blacklibrary has a cool tour bot that takes visitors
around the space chatting descriptions as it hovers. Use this tool to guide
students through a physical space when you're not there.
Copies of these scripts with GNU code are offered at: www.simteach.com/wiki,
scroll down to Second Life / Scripts for interactivity.
Coming Home will incorporate immersive games, virtual world expertise and virtual human intelligence. The institute is already familiar with creating virtual humans, and these humans will provide services that would have otherwise required a real human be logged in. Morie's team is also developing an online veterans center that will try to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder and give veterans a place to socialize and seek complementary and alternative medical interventions.
"We're working with the Mindfulness Center in San Diego, and they'll be running classes in Second Life in our land with veterans," Morie said. "We'll see how the veterans respond to that and how the facilitators work.""