Virtual worlds have the potential to transform education, Stricker said, by taking students on a journey that goes beyond reading words in a textbook.
“As students must do in real life,” he said, in virtual-world learning situations “they have to develop skill sets to read the environment around them, collect data, interpret it, rationalize through understanding how to weigh the evidence, and then synthesize it and take a position.”
In Second Life and other virtual worlds, Stricker said, his team creates scenarios that allow students to manipulate pieces of a problem and see the consequences of their choices.
So this is what you get when you remove the first letter from our beloved Multi User Virtual Environment, and pimp the last a bit up.
The Cryengine-3 does different Stereo Modes with a new technology: Instead of rendering 2 complete images, the pixels from the rendered scene are shifted by the angle resulting from the deepness. This is said to eat up just 1.5% load, instead of 50%!
Just found that on Building43:
Scobleizer talks to Mark Kingdon (CEO of Linden Lab, who make Second Life) about the new Viewer and the current development of Second Life.
Short article, mostly positive review of a Cisco Virtual Meeting. It seems, Virtual Events attendees are both older and younger than the average (broader spectrum), and are highly interested in later in person meetings. So VW meetings function as a low cost teaser for RL conferences?
