Second Life Health News: Myrl and the cost of virtual events August 3, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Virtuality, Web 2.0.trackback
- At Microsoft, cost of virtual events about 1/3 the cost of traditional events (Think Balm): A must-read piece focusing on the usability of Second Life.
- Let me introduce Myrl, a social gateway for virtual worlds. It is all about collaboration and user controlled information. They are building the first collaborative social picture of life in the virtual worlds.
- Want to screw up a virtual world experiment? Here’s how (Coop’s Corner): 137 million Second Life users in 2008?
- OSURLs is a location-based linking service for OpenSim Grids.
- “The Future of Healthcare in Virtual Worlds” : SL5B panel (Daneel Ariantho’s laboratory ): Game-based learning for virtual patients in Second Life
All great ideas but I would also add another item to it: consider doing a virtual event/meeting. Virtual events and meetings are a great way to deliver training and enable collaboration especially with travel budgets cut. These solutions are being deployed so rapidly by companies that the market is projected to exceed $18 billion by 2015. If you are interested in how you can use virtual environments attend the Virtual Edge Summit Feb. 22-23 (virtually or in-person if you are in/near Silicon Valley). There is no registration fee if you take a short survey.
Virtual Edge Summit 2010 is the only event that focuses exclusively on providing education, training and solutions for planning and producing virtual events, meetings and communities. Over 2 days, 80 experts will share their experience with you, and be available for one-on-ones. The event also offers a rich program for featuring experts from Cisco, Stanford, IBM, Disney SAP, Oracle, Intel as well as top virtual technology and service providers like InXpo, ON24, 6Connex, Stream57, CGS VirtualEvents365, George P. Johnson, Unisfair and Digitell.
When: February 22-23, 2010 8am until 6pm
Where: At the Santa Clara Convention Center in California and virtually in browser based virtual environments offering 2D and 3D experiences.
Register at http://www.VirtualEdgeSummit.com