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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Those words, or others similar to them, were said to me in the past few days when one of my "test subjects" (AKA Kate) was looking at one of the things I had built. I had described my original idea a while back, and she remembered it... and (thankfully) was ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I've seen examples of video clips used in-world to explain things going on, or provide "how-to" type tutorials. I could see this working if the clip was of an avatar, or if it included a narrator that was proportional to the viewer/avatar's size. I suggest these options because I want ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
In the simplest examples a walk though is of a building, you can walk around the space, or a digital representation of it, and "experience" it. More complex "walk" through might allow a participant to actually fly through a molecule, or through a tsunami (again like the NOAA example). The ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
These seems like an odd item on some levels, but I included and considered how I might construct an experience where someone would solve a math problem because I mean, more or less, I might want to use other types of programming that might mimic the ideals and process of ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
There are more and more tools that will allow a user to "draw" in-world in SL. Items like "doodle-draw" (http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=SL_Doodle_Draw) are a great example. There are plenty of other immersive environments that are providing these tools as well. Most of them are designed for interaction with other avatars, and that ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Artificial Intelligence (to some extend) is another option I considered. There are a few items I've seen where they create "chat-bots" (like "ALICE" [http://alicebot.blogspot.com/2008/05/pandorabots-has-xml-rpc-interface-that.html, http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Linden_AIML#LindenAIML_script] for different purposes, such as ESL. I could see something where a user could be asked questions, but this is also not really the type ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Stands for Heads up Display. I'm not sure I want to use one as I build my exercises/experiences in SL. At first I thought I would, but now I feel like using it might actually break the "immersion" I initially envisioned. Noting that there are many things a HUD is ...
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