real opportunities in virtual worlds
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Real Opportunities inVirtual Worlds
Pauline Woolleyaka Saffia Widdershins
Pauline and Saffia
• Pauline is a fifty-one year-old virtual world consultant of a certain size
• Saffia is a media executive who exists only in virtual worlds
• Saffia gets the looks and the glamour
• Saffia gets the Google hits too
• Pauline does the work!
What are virtual worlds?
• 3-D Environments
• Persistent
• Massively Multi User
• Resident Built and Textured
• Resident Scripted and Animated
• Resident Owned
Why should we be interested?
Opportunities for:• Fund-raising
• Awareness-raising
• Development projects
• Communication
• Training
Why should we be interested?
Web-based system that allows:
• Group Chat and Instant Messaging 1-2-1
• Streaming audio and video content
• Video Conference potential• 3d modelling in easy format
All for no charge to individuals Not-for-profits can create a
presence for about £80 per month
Fundraising
• Internal fund-raising in Second Life:Relay for Life:Prim Perfect launch
• Fund-raising in Second Life linked with real life:St.Jude’s Hospital
Awareness-raising
• Possibilities exist to create information points and interactive exhibitions in world – and more – such as Camp Darfur
• Events can become a focus for awareness-raising – a recent example has been International AIDS Day
Communication
Virtual Worlds can bring people together
• Without the need for expensive software
• Without the need for complicated packages to learn
• Giving them physical entities to interact with
Training
• Excellent in-world training opportunities
• Many universities exploring the possibilities of SL
• Wide range of web tools available within Second Life
Second Life v. Open Source
• Second Life already established and populated
• Technology established and tested
• Communities and support already in place
Second Life v. Open Source
• Offers a greater opportunity for individual development
• At the moment, largely untried and untested
• A number of key issues still to be determined
But it is the future ...
Some Useful Addresses
• Second Life: secondlife.com/
• Mal Burns, Metaverse commentator: Mal has an invaluable twitterfeed of information about virtual worlds:twitter.com/malburns
• Calaméo: http://en.calameo.com/ - the web book format. Hosts many Second Life amenities.
Contact Details
• Pauline WoolleyVirtual Worlds ConsultantOxmust28 Wolsey Road, Oxford, OX2 7SZTel: +44(0)1865 512286 Email pauline.woolley@oxmust.co.ukWeb: www.oxmust.co.uk Facebook: Pauline WoolleyLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinewoolley
• Saffia WiddershinsCEO Prim Perfect PublicationsEmail: saffia.widdershins@gmail.com Web-sites: www.primperfect.net & slcn.tv/programs/meta-makeoverBlogs: primperfectblog.wordpress.com/ & metamakeover.wordpress.com/Twitter: twitter.com/PrimPerfect Plurk: www.plurk.com/primperfect Calaméo: http://en.calameo.com/accounts/4234
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