Glob – The Indusgeeks Blog

Indusgeeks was featured on the Business Channel ETNow recently. Find the video here : Indusgeeks on ETNow Technoholik .

The show featured Indusgeeks CEO Siddharth (Sid) Banerjee talking about  Metamersive Learning Spaces application developed on the Second Life platform  and an older marketing campaign done for Child Rights and You (CRY). It features client and partner testimonials from CRY and Learning Possibilities.

Indusgeeks is proud to present Metamersive Learning Spces  as one of the very few  3D Training, Learning and Collaboration( 3DTLC) related solutions featured on the Second Life Work website by Linden Lab. We are now extending the MLS framework to other virtual environments like Open Sim, Shockwave, Unity 3D and Flash.

Metamersive Learning Spaces features ( demo video here ) :

1) Fully functional 3d multiuser classroom

2) Automated converters for PowerPoint and other audio/video media

3) Easy Web Interface to point media to different screens in the 3D environment

4) Full Security with Private regions and group limitations

5) Text Chat logs

6) Customizable 3D Learning Environment

Update  Dec 9, 2009 :

The event was a very interesting and the video for the same is available here :

ThinkBalm Global Unlecture Event

Thanks to Erica and Sam Driver of ThinkBalm for editing and posting this video.

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I am posting directly from Dr. Yesha Sivan’s blog who has done an excellent job of explaining the event here :

On November 6, 2009, the ThinkBalm Innovation Community will be holding an event called “Un-lecture no. 5: ‘Global’.” Three presenters will talk about Immersive Internet adoption trends and use cases in their region of the world: Yesha Sivan on Israel and the Middle East, Siddharth Banerjee on India and surrounds, and Claus Nehmzow on Hong Kong and region. Barbara Westmoreland will wrap things up by demo’ing part of nTeams island, which her company uses for global team-building activities.

How to RSVP: Reply to the LinkedIn group:http://tinyurl.com/yj2p2f8 . Please make sure “Follow this discussion” is checked off so you get the logistics details once we’ve finalized them, and you receive an event reminder via email.

* Who: Immersive Internet advocates, implementers, explorers, and tech marketers

* What: Three presenters will talk about Immersive Internet adoption trends and use cases in their region of the world: Yesha Sivan on Israel and the Middle East, Siddharth Banerjee on India, and Claus Nehmzow on Hong Kong. Then, Barbara Westmoreland will wrap things up by demo’ing part of the nTeams island her company uses to facilitate global team-building efforts. For more info about the un-lecture event format see this ThinkBalm Innovation Community video on YouTube: The Innovation Un-Lecture, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PiuJPmSQ_M .

* Where and how: Second Life, details TBD. We’ll use in-world voice.

* When: Friday, Nov. 6th from 8-9AM PDT (which is the same as Second Life time). Here is a link to link to the Time Zone Converter:http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc .

* Why: Share and gain insights into what’s happening with work-related adoption of immersive technologies around the globe. Learn what other members of the ThinkBalm Innovation Community are working on. Spend time with other members.

Please email or call with any questions.

Erica Driver, Principal
ThinkBalm
www.thinkbalm.com
ph: +1(401)592-0170
email: erica — at — thinkbalm.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/EricaDriver

I recently attended the Engage Expo 09 at San Jose on Sept 23-24 and met up with a number of leading lights in the fields of 3D Training Learning and Collaboration ( 3DTLC) and Virtual Worlds in general. It’s a testament to the growth of Virtual Worlds or our understanding of them – that a convention organised around  them has to have 4 different tracks to address the issues surrounding their use and development.

Overall the main ideas that emerged for me  from the conference were :

1. Enterprise use of 3D immersive interactive environments is picking up but not at the pace desired by the VW community and industry. We are ‘Crossing the Chasm’ on this.
2. Use of immersive environments for training in Defense and National Security .
3. Mainstream adoption is at least 3 to 5 years away for Enterprise use.
4. Need to create unique learning methodologies for 3DTLC.
5. Growth of Virtual Goods as an industry.
6. Casual social games are kings of 09 ( think Zynga and Farmville etc.)
7. The Metaverse will probably not be the Universal Set but rather a sub set of the Web ( a very important paradigm shift in thought here – hopefully will write a more detailed post on this later).
8. Need for formulating open standards and protocol to better integrate different virtual environments.
9. Need for standardized laws to govern virtual worlds and transactions there in.

I think these are the main thoughts I took away from the conference. There was  some degree of skepticism and fatalism in some of the early adopters but there was also a growing sense of having to deliver on fundamentals like ROI etc. Overall the mood was serious but optimistic – I personally think that 2010 is going to be a make or break year for many early players in the Industry.

I think the growing awareness of these 3D immersive interactive environments for work and the growing recognition of their utility is a very positive development. I think in 2009 – Virtual Worlds ( I like calling them immersive interactive envionments) have definitely moved beyond the exotic to be more utilitarian and this is greatly encouraging for early movers like Indusgeeks.

- Sid

Cool article in the Economic Times about us..

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ET&BaseHref=ETM%2F2008%2F12%2F12&ViewMode=GIF&GZ=T&PageLabel=13&EntityId=Ar01301&AppName=1

Check it out