I'm continuing to do research within Second Life (SL). Although I've yet to become convinced of the business value, the concept of simulations and virtual realities where business application scenarios may be explored and analyzed is appealing. After all, ten years ago, who would have thought that the web would have grown to it's pervasive presence?
Thus, here is a Second Life tutorial / overview I created with screenshots and narrative from my travels through SL. My goal is to help the viewer understand SL from a potential business perspective, starting with Orientation Island and then progressing through islands that demonstrate potential business applications, with a final stop for recreation (motorcycle racing)! The tutorial may take a moment to load; please be patient.
- A Second Life Tutorial / Overview
(the first slide has no audio ... by design!)- Breeze Module Notes: Total running time - 17 minutes
(or enter the tutorial and skip forward to any of these way points)
. - Slide #1: Intro
- Slide #9: Thomson NETg Virtual Training Center
- Slide #18: BMW
- Slide #21: Abbott's Aerodrome
- Slide #31: Space & Science Museum
- Slide #37: Reuters
- Slide #41: Second Life Search Commands
- Slide #49: PA Consulting
- Slide #55: PA Consulting: Smart House
- Slide #61: PA Consulting: Demo Island
- Slide #66: PA Consulting: Security Demo
- Slide #70: PA Consulting: Boom!
- Slide #78: PA Consulting: Lufthansa 747
- Slide #85: Mooz Raceway
- Slide #91: Good-Bye!
- Breeze Module Notes: Total running time - 17 minutes
I owe a great debt of gratitude to three individuals who without their kind assistance, I would not have been able create this tutorial. They are:
- Doug Bassett, a software engineer from Thomson NETg
- Claus Nehmzow and Marco Tippmer from PA Consulting
Both organizations have heavy presences within SL, and personally helped tutor me. The links I've given are not actually to their companies; rather they are to Web 2.0 descriptions of their efforts. Take a look!
Here are links to some of my other Second Life postings:
- June 19, 2008: Visualization Engineering
- April 13, 2006: Nerdcast - Take 06: A Second Life
- April 03, 2007: Creating Second Life Content
- February 26, 2007: Panel Discussion in Second Life
- January 23, 2007: Second Life Training (get a life)
- November 07, 2006: Blogs, Wikis and Bears ... Oh My!
If you've read this far, and still are wondering what this Second Life stuff is all about, I invite you to either click upon the two attached images which give a quick SL executive overview, or link to the full article in BaseLine. Baseline is a magazine which specifically focuses upon "where leadership meets technology". The publisher, Ziff Davis, is a leading publisher of technology related magazines.
Finally, I hope you've noticed that my blog does not have advertisements. My blog is a professional endeavor, and I'm not trying to sell you, the reader, anything. My commitment to education is deep, and personal. Please read about my "Run for China's Children", and help me build a school in rural China. Thank you.
.
Thanks for including the PA office and our Demo island in your tour. I hope you didn't get hurt in the explosion in our air terminal.
Funny to see how our Airbus 380 model turned into a Boeing 747 ;-)
Actually, we thought to use the Airbus example because the plane keeps getting delayed, so nobody has seen it, while most people know the 747 experience.
"German Guru" (in SL), aka Claus Nehmzow
... Rich responds:
Airbus, hmmm.
I did not realize. We Americans feel that we must have built "everything". The alternative is just too hard to fathom! For instance, you Europeans just don't understand the game of "football"!
Posted by: German Guru | March 18, 2007 at 06:31 AM