VWW Announcements and News

2010

  • Virtual Experience Forum

    The Virtual Experience Forum (VXF)—a new applied-research initiative led by Strategic Business Insights (SBI) in collaboration with its founding strategic sponsor, George P. Johnson (GPJ; a leading experience-marketing firm)—will serve as the global forum for collecting and analyzing virtual-event data and identifying best and next practices for effective virtual-event experiences. We will undertake comprehensive research of implementations of virtual events and organize mixed-reality events (combination of physical and virtual events) around physical meetings at SBI's headquarters in Silicon Valley. VXF will take a broad perspective on events and include meetings of varying size (number of participants) and duration (from less than a day to multiple days).
    Read more or download the Virtual Experience Forum brochure
    If you have any questions, please contact Eilif Tronsden

  • Virtual Edge 2010 Conference Presentation

    On 22 February 2010, Eilif Trondsen (director of Virtual Worlds @ Work) spoke at the Virtual Edge 2010 conference where over 1000 people gathered at the Santa Clara Convention Center (and reportedly over 1000 more in various virtual venues) to hear presentations and have discussions about virtual events. Eilif's presentation drew on SBI's research in the Virtual Worlds @ Work initiative and from his work with George P. Johnson to launch the Virtual Experience Forum. Download Eilif's presentation: Perspectives on Future of 3D Immersive Environments: Implications for Users and Developers of Virtual Events
    If you have any questions, please contact Eilif Trondsen

Older News Items

2009

  • Virtual Meeting on OpenSim Platform

    This VWW virtual meeting took place within the Shared Spaces (Shaspa) grid of OpenSim, using the Hippo viewer and using Skype audio for the participants.

  • VW Special Interest Group (SIG) of Venture Capital Roundtable

    This SIG was created in fall 2008, drawing in many people interested in virtual-world business opportunities from the venture-funding and legal communities of Silicon Valley. Eilif Trondsen is a regular member of the group, and the recent 12 February 2009 meeting reviewed a number of projects in which the SIG members are active.

  • VW Roadmap Workshop

    The first meeting of this group—organized by Electric Sheep (one of the leading VW design, development, and services firms)—took place in fall 2008. The second meeting, attended by Eilif Trondsen, was in Menlo Park, California on 5 February 2009. A summary report of the February meeting will soon be available to VWW members.

  • VW Deployment Workshop

    On 26 January 2009, Eilif Trondsen joined a working group tasked with developing ideas, advice, and guidance for the deployment of an "immersive learning strategy" for a global pharmaceuticals company. The company's sales-training management team recognizes the value of VWs and is embracing an innovative strategy for next-generation learning and training.

  • Tekes VW Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

    On 19 January 2009, Tekes—which funds innovative research and development projects in Finland—held a one-day conference on VWs, as part of its very innovative program "Places and Spaces." View the conference proceedings

2008

  • VW Seminars in Norway

    On 8 December 2008, Eilif Trondsen led a seminar (with about 100 participants) at the headquarters of the Norwegian Research Council (NRC) in Oslo, Norway. In attendance was the managing director of the Nordic Innovation Center, as well as the head of the Innovation Division of NRC. The following day, Eilif led seminars in Trondheim, Norway, at NTNU (one of Norway's leading universities) and at StatoilHydro (one of the world's leading oil companies).

  • Virtual Worlds London

    20–21 October 2008, London, England. For more information, see http://www.VirtualWorldsLondon.com.

  • Serious Virtual Worlds '08

    This conference will be at Coventry TechnoCentre, England, during 11–12 September 2008. For more information, please see: http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net/.

  • Virtual-Worlds Special Interest Group

    This Special Interest Group (SIG) has regular events in Silicon Valley on various virtual worlds issues. Eilif Trondsen is a cochair of this SIG. For more information on this SIG and upcoming events, please see: http://tinyurl.com/6h7tg7.

  • Virtual Worlds @ Work: Onboarding and Sales Training

    On 4 September 2008 at 11:00 a.m., Eilif Trondsen will join two colleagues in this session of the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles. Our session will leverage and build on the one-day meeting we held on this topic at SRI on 28 April 2008. For more information on this conference, see http://www.virtualworldsexpo.com/schedule/enterprise.html.

  • Virtual Worlds and Innovation

    A workshop will take place at Helsinki School of Economics on 27–29 August 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. One of the sessions will explore new directions and issues related to employee engagement, distributed organizations, and virtual worlds. Session participants will include Eilif Trondsen, director of VWW, and others from Nokia, VTT, Helsinki University of Technology, and Helsinki School of Economics.
    Download the full workshop program.

  • Virtual Worlds @ Work Panel Session in vBus Expo

    On 30 July 2008 at 11:00 a.m. PST, Eilif Trondsen, director of VWW, will chair a panel discussion on the use of virtual worlds for enterprise applications. Panelists include: John Boring, CEO of Accelerate L&D; Anders Gronstedt, CEO of Gronstedt Group; and Dan Gillette of Greeleaf Medical. For more information, see: http://www.cleverzebra.com.

  • Notes from 27 June 2008 Panel Session in Second Life

    Download notes. This Second Life session was part of a one-day VWW workshop at SRI International Headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

  • Virtual Worlds Survey: Year in Review, Year Ahead

    This survey was completed and discussed at our VWW meeting on 27 June 2008. The summary of the survey will be available shortly.

  • Games for Health

    This is the fourth annual conference on games for health—taking place on 8–9 May 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland—as part of the Serious Games series of conferences, and this year a pre-conference event will be on Virtual Worlds & Health and Game Accessibility. For more information, see: http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html.

  • Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference

    This is the second year of this conference—which held sessions in New York and San Jose in 2007—and this Spring's conference will take place in New York on 3–4 April 2008. For more information, see: http://www.virtualworlds2008.com.

  • Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University

    This two-day, weekend conference will take place during 16–17 Februrary 2008 at Annenberg Auditorium at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. For more information, see: http://metaverseu.stanford.edu.

  • Virtual Worlds and New Realities in Commerce, Politics, and Society

    The conference will take place at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on 11 February 2008. For more information, see: http://tinyurl.com/3b4mqr.

  • MBA Leadership Conference

    On 31 January 2008 Eilif Trondsen will be speaking at this Austin, Texas conference at a session on Strategic Use of Virtual Worlds for MBA Program Delivery. See: http://tinyurl.com/2fw6rb.

2007

  • Metaverse Meetups at Stanford's Humanities Lab

    On Thursday, 8 November 2007, Mike Liebhold from the Institute for the Future will speak on: 3D data for real world virtual worlds. The following Metaverse Meetup event will be on 29 November, when Jamais Cascio will speak about the Metaverse Roadmap. For information on this new Metaverse Meetup series, contact Eilif Trondsen.

  • Virtual Worlds Forum Europe

    During 23–26 October 2007 in London, England, "Europe's first pan-European virtual worlds conference" will take place to explore the business possibilities of virtual worlds (see http://virtualworldsforum.com).

  • Virtual Worlds 2007 Fall

    This conference will take place in San Jose, California, on 10–11 October 2007—the day after our first VWC meeting at SRI. For more information about the conference, see http://www.virtualworlds2007.com.

  • Serious Virtual Worlds

    This conference will take place at the Serious Games Institute, Coventry, England, on 13–14 September 2007. For more information, see http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net.

  • State of Play V in Singapore

    This conference, State of Play V: Building the Global Metaverse, took place on 19–22 August 2007 in Singapore. For more information about the conference, see http://www.nyls.edu/pages/5057.asp.

  • Publication in eLearn Magazine

    The article Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning, coauthored by Tony O'Driscoll of IBM, Jay Cross of Internet Time Group, and Eilif Trondsen of SBI, examines what virtual worlds may mean for the future of learning and training. You can find the article here: http://tinyurl.com/2mzp2v.

  • Seminars in Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea

    During the week of 29 May 2007, Eilif Trondsen gave two seminars in Tokyo (to representatives from more than a couple of dozen companies) and one in Seoul, plus three presentations at company facilities in Japan and Korea. He found strong interest in virtual worlds, but most attendees were less familiar with the use of virtual worlds for corporate applications than are companies in North America.

  • Participation in Statoil's Second Life exploration

    Statoil is Norway's largest oil company and one of the world's top ten largest oil companies. We have been in discussion with several groups that are exploring how they can use virtual worlds, and on 26 July 2007 we saw and experienced what they have done so far in Second Life.

  • First Virtual Worlds Viewpoints the week of 23 July 2007

    The first monthly Viewpoints (VP) provides a high-level view of virtual worlds and some key issues and developments. Future Viewpoints will address more focused and specific topics.

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