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University of Southern California Interactive Media dept

MellaniuM designs and creates virtual "real worlds" for customers requiring immersive visual environments that enable interactive walkthroughs & simulations

MellaniuM designs and creates virtual "real worlds" for customers requiring immersive visual environments that enable interactive walkthroughs & simulations

Playable fictions are interactive stories in which one is positioned as a protagonist who makes game choices that have consequence in the fictional world. Further still, we often find ourselves engaging in struggles and developing understandings that shape player's worldview outside of the game.

a SLurl-like tool that enables you to enter the island name and coordinates of your land. Five minutes later, Peek360 sends to your email address a URL that, when entered into a browser, plays an interactive movie of your land just as it actually looks in SL!

HyperCities is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment

The EcoMUVE project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a recently funded project of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The goal of EcoMUVE is to develop a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based ecosystems science curriculum for middle school, and to conduct feasibility studies on the practicality, integration, and acceptance of the MUVE-based curriculum for student engagement and learning in classroom settings. MUVEs enable multiple participants to access virtual worlds simultaneously, interacting with other students and with computer-based agents to facilitate collaborative learning activities of various types.

Sleep is Death is a fabulous interactive storytelling (writing) and game development game for two players - teachers check THIS OUT!

Facade: digital storytelling using avatars -

Augmented Reality Game: World Without Oil