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Posts tagged: virtual world technology
Visual Purple’s Top 10 Blog Posts from 2009
Almost as exciting as David Letterman’s Top 10 list- here is a list of the top 10 blog posts of 2009 from Visual Purple’s Virtual Speak blog.
Navigation in Virtual Worlds: From Simple to Complex
Chat Bots 101: Artificial Intelligence Optional
Promise and Perils of Virtual Worlds 1
Promise and Perils of Virtual Worlds 2
Emulating Human Voiceovers With TTS Voices
Virtual World Cost Analysis- Diving In
Virtual Worlds: The Emperor has no Clothes!
Virtual Worlds for Enterprise and Corporate Use
Speaking of Virtual Worlds… (Week of November 30-December 4)
A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story.
Building Real Security With Virtual Worlds
Insurance Company Launches a Virtual World Aimed at Making Healthy Choices
Virtual world to offer chiropractic students unique patient experience
Second Life Gets A Life 2.0 At Sundance
Educators explore virtual reality as learning tool
U.C. Irvine Set to Offer 4-Year Degree in Virtual Worlds
Speaking of Virtual Worlds…(Week of November 16-20)
A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story.
Second Life Duty Now Required for Penn State’s Online Advisers
Avatars Can Surreptitiously And Negatively Affect User In Video Games, Virtual Worlds
National Geographic And NDi Media Partner To Develop And Distribute ’Virtual World Of Music’ Game
Speaking of Virtual Worlds… (Week of November 2-6)
A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story.
The Second Life Economy – Third Quarter 2009 in Detail
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research- Volume 2, Number 3: Technology, Economy and Standards
Second Life Enterprise (AKA Codename Nebraska) Launch
Homeland Security Plans Virtual World Terror Attack Simulators
Speaking of Virtual Worlds…(Week of October 19-23)
A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story.
Linden Lab CEO on Second Life’s growth, future
The Virtual World in 2015: Our Readers’ Predictions
Journal of Virtual Worlds JVWR Volume 2, Number 3: Technology, Economy and Standards
Linden Lab to Unveil Nebraska at Enterprise Conference
Why Do Government Islands Frequently Fail?
A Virtual Clinic to Treat the Stresses of War
Speaking of Virtual Worlds…(Week of October 12-16)
A weekly wrap-up on what’s going on within the Virtual World sphere and beyond! Click on any of the below titles to read the full story.
China Bans Foreign Investment In Online Games, Virtual Worlds
Nokia to Invest in Virtual Worlds
Engineering and the Question of Hands-On Training in a Virtual World
The Virtual World campus 250+ US universities now offer degrees linked to ‘virtuality’
Are online currencies striking gold?
Virtual Goods To Reach $1 Billion In 2009
Verizon/Cisco Study Finds Improved Performance from Virtual Collaboration
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Wouldn’t it be Cool?! Synthetic Intelligence, that is.
By Ed Heinbockel, President and CEO, Visual Purple, LLC
We have an entertaining habit here at Visual Purple of diving down technology rabbit holes with a particular goal in mind and quickly finding ourselves looking squarely in the eyes of something far bigger, better and badder than anything we initially imagined. If we’re not careful, the proverbial technology tail would soon be wagging us. Looks like we may be living that dream today.
The ‘wouldn’t it be cool’ moment occurred some months back when we came to the realization that VWs demand avatars (NPCs) that behave in ways that would seem realistic and of utility. So we started down the path to achieve not Artificial Intelligence, but Behavioral Intelligence – or what we now choose to describe as Synthetic Intelligence. In future blogs we’ll break this down and explore the ‘why’ behind this naming convention as it implies much.
What about that tech rabbit hole, you ask? Oh yes, the rabbit hole. Think BIG databases. Think ‘smart’ databases. Think what that might do, distributed… got your attention now?
We’ll write more about this after our next patent filing. Stay tuned.
Cleantech Evangelism in a Bear Market: Is it Still Viable?
By Marcus Cannon, Business Development & Project Manager, Visual Purple, LLC
Sometimes the bottom line really is the bottom line. In the midst of an economic downturn executives are leery of spending on anything that doesn’t seem likely to increase profit. Charles Cooper echoed this sentiment recently closing with the advice that “telling the boss that you’re saving the environment in the process is not likely to be the clincher. Ever.” Similarly, JP Morgan’s managing director Mike Dorsey recently put it as bluntly as possible: “Saving the world is not a substitute for being financially successful.”
Luckily, using virtual world technology in order to offset travel costs is cleantech that makes sense. More and more companies are recognizing that consistently high fuel costs, lodging costs, per diem costs, and the opportunity cost of having the workforce away from the workplace doesn’t make that much sense. There may always be some number of events that companies will want live, but that number is dwindling. As virtual world technology improves, distributed workforces are more and more able to effectively use VWs as effective mediums for training, project meetings, team-building exercises, and conferences. Despite the traditional misconception—employees won’t pay attention because they’re sitting in their offices on their computers—many firms report that employees have higher immersion and participation levels while attending via a VW. These employees are not jet-lagged, they’re not sitting in a stuffy (or frigidly cold) conference room with dim lighting, and they’re able to bring the full resources of their native work environment to bear on problems and challenges being collaboratively discussed in the VW.
In a bear market prospects for cleantech as a feel-good investment are indeed bare. But when a minimal investment can offset massive costs and contribute to a company’s environmentally friendly image, that’s an investment executives are likely to embrace.