1. What in the (Virtual) World is going on? CATHY ARREGUIN instructionalmuse@mac.com Santa Barbara Community College Explore It! - March 2009

2. NBC: THE OFFICE “The Ad” OCTOBER 25, 2007

3. Dwight: Second Life is not a game. It is a multi-user, virtual environment. It doesn't have points or scores. It doesn't have winners or losers. Jim: Oh, it has losers. Dwight: I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great I literally wanted a second one. Absolutely everything was the same... except I could fly.

5. Imagine this...

6. Shaking hands with a colleague from China without either of you leaving home...

7. Going to work without really ever “going” to work...

8. Flying to your new Air Force Base and meeting those stationed there without stepping in a plane...

9. Seeing a professor in the hallway and asking a quick question even though you’ve never been on campus...

10. Talking to expert scientists in your high school science class as they tour you through their latest sustainable housing project...

11. Guess what...

12. you don’t have to imagine

13. IBM 2007: $10 million invested in Virtual Worlds 2008: Just the beginning 2009: Working towards interoperability http://www.ibm.com/virtualworlds/

14. Sun Microsystems Problem: 50% employees are remote daily Solution: Virtual Campus http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.html

15. United States Air Force Problem: Distance Training Solution: Virtual Air Base: MyBase http://www.aetc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080130-066.pdf COPYRIGHT 2008, LINDEN RESEARCH, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

16. Higher Education Distance Education Simulations Games Access to Experts http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education VIRTUAL MOROCCO - JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY

17. K-12 Distance Education Simulations - Role Plays Access to Experts Virtual Field Trips http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life:_Educators_Wor king_with_Teens http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/

18. U.S. Congress April 1, 2008 Subcommittee hearing in both Washington D.C. and Second Life http://www.america.gov/st/usg- english/2008/April/20080407131116lcnirellep3.368556e-03.html SECOND LIFE RESIDENTS VIEWING STREAMING VIDEO OF HEARING

19. Over 200+ VWs in development for kids alone Corporate interest Intel and others Government & Military interest Why is this important? KZERO SURVEY OF VIRTUAL WORLD DEVELOPMENT - FALL 2008

20. Check this out... SOURCE: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=503861http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=503861

21. What’s the HYPE?

22. Virtual Worlds offer: NPIRL Cost savings (time, money) Rich Social MUVE Interaction Avatar based Customized Environments Simulations + REAL People Engagement NOT POSSIBLE IN REAL LIFE

23. Why Second Life?

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25. Other MUVE Platforms

26. Open Sim Open Source Based on Second Life code Fewer restrictions - Terms of Service - Less costly Less stable (at this point) Targeted towards niche populations REACTION GRID - AN EDUCATIONAL OPEN SIM PROJECT

27. Qwaq Not Free Easy, quick to learn Real time document collaboration Less focused on avatar-based learning QWAQ

28. Project Wonderland Sun Microsystems PC only Limited content creation Better for built environments that users respond to Realtime document collaboration PROJECT WONDERLAND

29. HiPiHi China Second Life like Reflective of culture HIPIHI

30. Virtual Forbidden City IBM & Chinese Government Forbidden City Built environment Learn history and culture Virtual Field Trip Multiuser interactions VIRTUAL FORBIDDEN CITY HTTP://WWW.BEYONDSPACEANDTI ME.ORG

31. Explore! Second Life: http://secondlife.com/http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education IBM: http://www.ibm.com/virtualworlds/http://www.ibm.com/virtualworlds/ Project Wonderland: http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.htmlhttp://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.html PacRimX: http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/ Global Kids: http://www.holymeatballs.org/library/video/globalkidsAChildsWarsmall.movhttp://www.holymeatballs.org/library/video/globalkidsAChildsWarsmall.mov

32. Explore! Science in Second Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHUocLcj1eUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHUocLcj1eU Open Sim Project: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page Open Sim example - Reaction Grid: http://www.reactiongrid.com/http://www.reactiongrid.com/ Qwaq: http://www.qwaq.com/http://www.qwaq.com/ HiPiHi: http://www.hipihi.com/index_en.htmlhttp://www.hipihi.com/index_en.html Virtual Forbidden City: http://www.beyondspaceandtime.orghttp://www.beyondspaceandtime.org