Training in Virtual Worlds: 3DXplorer

With the increasing expense and inconvenience of travel and the need for instantaneous collaboration across wide-geographic areas, corporations are beginning to turn to training in Virtual Worlds. Virtual world training has an advantage over Webinar in that it's always on. Staff members can make arrangements to meet at any time to exchange information in a simulated face-to-face environment. Often these programs incorporate VOIP for real time audio.

One of the largest is Second Life. To visit my Roy Bentley's poetry & training site, "The Belmont Theatre" click on the button below to access the SLURL. You may sign up for a free avatar at  Second Life. When in-world contact: Fiona Bruh, Othello Karu, or Riverhorse Writer.

Traditionally , as with Second Life,  this has required special browsers and powerful graphic cards on the company's platform, but groups like Altadyn are beginning to develop applications that can be launched from standard browsers. 3DXplorer below is an example. When the applet starts, you may log in as a guest.  NOTE: To access the java applet below, you may need to update your Java program.

Another option is to load the world onto your server, behind your firewall. This is the approach taken by Proton Media. They have an "off-the-shelf" approach called, "ProtoSphere", but can also do custom design.