I put together a synopsis of my 3D blogs from the 3D TLC conference and gave a presentation today to our elearning technology community of practice. 3d-tlc-conference.pdf
It was a well attended meeting with elearning techies from every division of the company. Following my presentation the guys from Proton Media gave a presentation on Protosphere which is a 3D virtual social networking environment that is installed behind the firewall. Protosphere integrates 3D virtual environments with more traditional social networking tools like chat and profiles.
An interesting analogy was presented today was we discussed why these types of environments feel familiar and fun. Playing in 3D virtual worlds is somewhat like a child playing dolls with a doll house or action figures. adolescents play with World of War Craft, Halo and Sims … so do adults play with 3D Virtual Environments and are they playing, working, learning or maybe all three?