Meetings and Events
Bring small teams and large divisions together to brainstorm, make decisions, solve problems, or just socialize—to speed your innovation cycles. Second Life is the perfect collaboration tool for meetings and events. Disparate teams can come together for meetings in a shared immersive environment to present, brainstorm, and make decisions. Not only is there spatial voice, but Second Life also supports individual and group text chat and voice, and inworld avatar interactions. It's easy to bring your presentations into the workspace, view videos, share documents, sketch out ideas on whiteboards, and use 3D collaboration tools..
Bring small teams and large divisions together to brainstorm, make decisions, solve problems, or just socialize—to speed your innovation cycles. Second Life is the perfect collaboration tool for meetings and events. Disparate teams can come together for meetings in a shared immersive environment to present, brainstorm, and make decisions. Not only is there spatial voice, but Second Life also supports individual and group text chat and voice, and inworld avatar interactions. It's easy to bring your presentations into the workspace, view videos, share documents, sketch out ideas on whiteboards, and use 3D collaboration tools..
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But, Second Life has several advantages over other types of meetings. You always know who's attending and talking because there is an “Active Speakers” box at the top of your screen that lists all participants and visually indicates who's speaking. When a colleague is presenting, attendees can ask questions and make comments in text chat that the speaker generally acknowledges and incorporates into his or her discussion. The platform also supports multiple languages and real-time text chat translators are available. And, if someone isn't paying attention for a few minutes, then that person's avatar slumps forward and it's almost as embarrassing as falling asleep during a physical meeting.
The same advantages hold true for larger meetings and events. Second Life can support up to 350+ participants and, if you require a larger meeting, then the Second Life environment can be streamed through a web interface (provided by several Solution Providers for an extra fee) that combines inworld and web chat so that web participants can interact directly with inworld attendees.
Training
Conduct new hire orientation or run your sales and customer service teams through various learning scenarios—without the needless time and cost of travel. Training in Second Life is particularly powerful for highly complex simulations or dynamic team interactions such as sales, customer service, new hire, compliance, leadership, or military training. You can learn as a group, conduct team-building exercises, and have break out sessions as effectively and easily as in real world training sessions. Unlike other e-learning technologies, Second Life brings trainees and their instructors into the same virtual workspace where they can 'feel' as if they inhabit the same immersive environment.
Prototypes & Simulations
Bring teams together to prototype new product concepts or simulate endless customer service scenarios—inexpensively, quickly, and easily.
Creating prototypes in Second Life has many advantages. You can avoid the time and expense of creating physical prototypes at the beginning phases of product conception and design. Instead, you can replicate your product inworld and bring teams together to walk around it, manipulate it, get inside of it, and experience it, to provide more informed and immediate feedback that can be incorporated directly into the design-on the fly. The build tools in Second Life make it easy to quickly create these prototypes and make changes. Organizations can speed innovation cycles by virtually brainstorming and testing different options before deciding on the “final” prototype that can then become a physical prototype.
The same advantages hold true for larger meetings and events. Second Life can support up to 350+ participants and, if you require a larger meeting, then the Second Life environment can be streamed through a web interface (provided by several Solution Providers for an extra fee) that combines inworld and web chat so that web participants can interact directly with inworld attendees.
Training
Conduct new hire orientation or run your sales and customer service teams through various learning scenarios—without the needless time and cost of travel. Training in Second Life is particularly powerful for highly complex simulations or dynamic team interactions such as sales, customer service, new hire, compliance, leadership, or military training. You can learn as a group, conduct team-building exercises, and have break out sessions as effectively and easily as in real world training sessions. Unlike other e-learning technologies, Second Life brings trainees and their instructors into the same virtual workspace where they can 'feel' as if they inhabit the same immersive environment.
Prototypes & Simulations
Bring teams together to prototype new product concepts or simulate endless customer service scenarios—inexpensively, quickly, and easily.
Creating prototypes in Second Life has many advantages. You can avoid the time and expense of creating physical prototypes at the beginning phases of product conception and design. Instead, you can replicate your product inworld and bring teams together to walk around it, manipulate it, get inside of it, and experience it, to provide more informed and immediate feedback that can be incorporated directly into the design-on the fly. The build tools in Second Life make it easy to quickly create these prototypes and make changes. Organizations can speed innovation cycles by virtually brainstorming and testing different options before deciding on the “final” prototype that can then become a physical prototype.