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James OReilly

ThinkBalm publishes business value study « ThinkBalm: Immersive Internet insi... - 0 views

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  • Nearly 30% of survey respondents (19 of 66) said their organization recouped their investment in immersive technologies in less than nine months, once their project(s) launched.
  • The top motivations for investment in immersive technology in 2008 /1Q 2009 were enabling people in disparate locations to spend time together, increased innovation, and cost savings or avoidance.
  • Early implementers are choosing the simplest use cases first. The most common were learning and training (80%, or 53 of 66 respondents focused on this use case) and meetings (76%, or 50 of 66 respondents). Some intend to take on more complex use cases in 2010 or 2011.
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  • Immersive technology won out over a variety of alternatives primarily due to low cost and the increased engagement it delivers. The leading alternatives were Web conferencing and in-person meetings, followed by phone calls.
  • Work-related use of the Immersive Internet is in the early adopter phase. Before it can pass into the early majority phase, practitioners and the technology vendors who serve them must “cross the chasm.” The most common barriers to adoption are target users having inadequate hardware, corporate security restrictions, and getting users interested in the technology.
Kerry J

Places tagged "education" - Sloog: Tagging the New World - 0 views

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shared by Kerry J on 05 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 05 Jul 09
     
    Sloog is a bookmarking service for Second Life residents. It allows users to save favourite places and avatars and search for them later, both in-world with a simple plug-in (HUD) or via web browser at www.sloog.org
Mathieu Bertolo

Science Online London conference live in Second Life - Joanna Scott's blog - Joanna Sco... - 0 views

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shared by Mathieu Bertolo on 09 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Mathieu Bertolo on 09 Aug 09
     
    Nature Networkers will be familiar with Science Online London: a one-day conference held at the Royal Institution on London covering all aspects of online science. The conference is co-hosted by Nature Network, Mendeley and the RI, and features sessions including "What is a scientific paper?" "Legal and Ethical Aspects of Science Blogging" and "Real-time statistics in science".
James OReilly

HUMlab - stream Virtual Macbeth - 0 views

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  • James OReilly on 31 May 09
     
    ,Virtual Macbeth was designed to demonstrate how we might best use the affordances of virtual environments for Education. Shakespeare’s Macbeth reimagined in Second Life provides an adaptive bridge between classic texts and new media technology.
Eloise Pasteur

"Second Life is dead" unless you can actually read - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views

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Second Life Nielsen usage statistics blog

shared by Eloise Pasteur on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • The Nielsen people record actual minutes using various "sites" across 180,000+ US-homes. Second Life comes out at 760 minutes per week (that's over 12 hours), or over 1h 45 minutes per day... (wimps - I'd be an outlier around the 2500 minutes per week mark!). Amongst its users (comparing to other user-minutes per week) this makes it more popular than even the 800lb gorilla of World of Warcraft (653 minutes per week).
  • What does it all mean? Well, it might mean Second Life is a niche market, but it's a fiercely loyal niche market that really, really gets it - and this gives Linden Lab a reasonably solid (hard numbers are impossible to come by) income stream and around that a reasonable likelihood of continuing to provide its service.
  • Comparing it to social media sites the difference is even more extreme - Facebook does the best at 84 minutes per week: that's 11% of the time that Second Life users spend. Twitter weighs in at about an hour a week on average. Stephen Fry is much bigger in his usage I'm sure, but the averages are up there for easy comparison.
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  • Signing up to Second Life is more like taking someone who has basically no computer experience and saying "learn the internet" - there are lots of steps along the way, moments that are critical to whether they will continue or not, but there are lots of skills to go from seeing your first web-page to signing up to a forum, RSSing a blog or two, generating a web-page with HTML, CSS and jquery... and that's the challenge of learning Second Life.
Mal Burns

Echt Virtuell: Shop-Region: Bartertown - 1 views

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Kerry J

EDUCATIONAL MODELING, SIMULATIONS, & GAMES: Alessi (2000), Alessi & Trollip (2000) & Sh... - 0 views

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  • Kerry J on 25 May 09
     
    blog post from U of OK regarding Alessi, Trollip and Shaffer's research and theories into fidelity of simulation, learning and relationship between them and whether learning is readily transferrable from games or VWs toreal life.
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