About the Meeting

This first meeting of the VWC, which took place on 9 October 2007 at the headquarters of SRI International in Menlo Park, California, was an interactive session for presentations, dialogue, and discussion among VWC members, SRIC-BI (now SBI) team members, and invited guests about a range of virtual-worlds (VWs) issues and developments. The session also provided networking opportunities among the attendees as well as with representatives of some of the leading virtual-worlds companies at the meeting. The materials below are especially useful for anyone who was unable to attend the meeting; they are useful also for attendees who want to review some of the proceedings of the meeting.

Meeting Agenda and Presentations

• Meeting Agenda
• Virtual Worlds: Key Trends, Issues, and Questions
  Rob Edmonds, SRIC-BI (now SBI)
• A Guided Tour of StatoilHydro's Second Life Facilities and Visions and Lessons So Far(38.8 MB)
  Alex Cullum, StatoilHydro
• Sophia's Garden: Healing in Community Online
  Karen Herzog and Richard Sachs, Sophia's Garden
• Learning in Virtual Worlds: Leveraging i3D for Authentic, Complex Learning and Assessment
  Valerie Crawford, SRI International
• Implementing Corporate Learning Solutions Using 3D Virtual Worlds
  John Boring and Chris Condon, Accelerate Learning and Development
• Qwaq Forums: Virtual Spaces for Real Work
  Remy Malan, Qwaq
• Virtual Worlds Technology Perspective
  Corey Bridges, Multiverse Network

Meeting Photos

See a series of photos taken at the meeting.