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Los Altos Hills, CA, May 5, 2010 – Innovation in Learning, a pioneer in the field of Immersive HealthCare Learning, Training and Collaboration, announced today  that it has entered into a global partnership with India-headquartered Indusgeeks Solutions, a leading virtual worlds development and serious games company.

Under the terms of the agreement, Innovation in Learning and Indusgeeks will work jointly to address the global Healthcare Training and Simulation market for both products and services.

“Innovation in Learning is excited to have Indusgeeks as our Global Partner”, said Dr. Parvati Dev, Cofounder and CEO of Innovation in Learning.  “Innovation in Learning seeks to empower healthcare professionals and students by presenting new immersive learning experiences for them on a browser based, easy to use, hosted platform called CliniSpace^TM. Indusgeeks offers dedicated technical and design solutions within the Immersive Internet domain. Immersive, interactive, virtual solutions like CliniSpace^TM provide medical and nursing schools as well as hospitals, an easy to use, hosted solution to achieve their training and quality objectives.”.  “This partnership” Dr. Dev added, “will also allow IIL to enter new Asian markets, especially India, which is a major future market for the Healthcare training and collaboration sectors.”

“Innovation in Learning has great credentials in the Healthcare training market, owing to the fact that they’re being led by accomplished academics like Dr. Dev and Dr. Heinrichs (Dr. Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs is an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine).” said Siddharth Banerjee , CEO of Indusgeeks.  “We are privileged to partner with IIL and help extend its expertise to a 3D immersive platform like CliniSpace^TM, a first of its kind solution in the Healthcare Training space.”  “Indusgeeks will also market and provide support for the Clinispace^TM platform across Indian and other Asian markets” mentioned Siddharth. “In addition, we will also jointly offer our services to create custom simulations and training solutions for global clients who are looking to create their own solutions on platforms like Second Life, OpenSim, Open Wonderland, Shockwave, Flash, Unity3D etc. in the Healthcare market.”

According to Dr. Heinrichs,  co-founder of IIL, “Our future plan and vision for this partnership, is to enable current generations of students to learn collaboratively and experientially using online virtual medical environments. Here, they can immediately gauge the application of their knowledge, skill, and attitude with the virtual patient’s responses.  We hope this innovative learning methodology will revolutionise medical education in the US and across the world.”

About Innovation in Learning: Innovation in Learning Inc. (IIL) provides products and services for virtual training environments in the healthcare sector. IIL’s products include CliniSpace™, a 3D immersive medical environment hosted on, and accessed via the Internet;  DynaPatient™, virtual patients with dynamic pathophysiology models; and clinical training scenarios, curricula and assessment tools. IIL’s principals are leaders in the healthcare simulation field, with numerous publications and recognition for their research.

About Indusgeeks Solutions Pvt. Ltd: Indusgeeks is an award winning 3D immersive solutions and virtual worlds development company. Voted as one of the hottest start-ups in India for the year 2010, Indusgeeks is a market leader in creating rich 3D and 2D, browser based, immersive virtual environments that work on low-end hardware and bandwidth. Indusgeeks’ global clientele includes the Govt. of Dubai, Tata Indicom, The Brand Union, Gazzetta dello Sport, Mahindra Satyam, Idaho State University etc.

Official Press Release here: http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/health-care/2010050649938.htm

Indusgeeks Solutions is proud to announce that we are taking the next step in the company’s evolution.

We are launching a product and services line under the flagship brand ‘Metamersive™’. This will cater to the Serious Games, Enterprise Virtual Worlds ( including Second Life Enterprise deployment) and 3D Simulations market. We seek to fulfill the next generation training, learning and collaboration needs of Global organisations, SMEs and Educational institutions with our Metamersive™ solutions.

Indusgeeks Solutions Pvt. Ltd. will continue to cater to the entertainment, marketing & advertising (advergaming) and casual gaming market under the ‘Indusgeeks’ brand.

Why this distinction ?

• Clarity of Messaging: As applications for 3D interactive, immersive technologies keep growing we needed to present a clearer picture of our products and services to our clients.

• Greater Internal Efficiency: The clear segmentation between entertainment & marketing and 3D training,learning and collaboration (3DTLC) led us to differentiate the product and service lines for the two.

• Better Service Standards and Delivery: This allows us to create deeper domain expertise to serve our clients within the specific verticals. And also to have dedicated client managers with relevant industry experience.

What’s new here?

Services under the Indusgeeks brand :

• Advergaming : We have been creating branding experiences in Second Life. Ref : Tata Indicom campaign, CRY etc. But these branding and marketing related immersive experiences are moving off standalone client based virtual worlds towards a more browser based virtual experience. To address this need we at Indusgeeks are now working on 2D and 3D branded immersive experiences (games, machinimas, virtual tours etc.) using Shockwave, Unity 3D and Flash and other technologies.

• Casual Games : In tune with the casual gaming revolution worldwide, we are using our expertise to serve clients within this domain.

Products under Metamersive™ :

• Improving ‘Metamersive™ Products by adding new 3D platforms like Unity3D , Open Sim and Project Wonderland, with the addition of authoring tools, SCORM support etc.

• Healthcare Education

• Security and Defense

Major theme for 2010 will be the same as 2009 – ‘applications of virtual world technologies’.

Motto for 2010 : Indusgeeks seeks to be the definitive company in the sector of 3D immersive, interactive technologies.

Since our inception we’ve been harping on about finding ‘killer applications’ for 3D technologies. It seems the time has come and 2010 will be a golden year for VW apps.

This change will be reflected in our website by February.

Our Company Motto for all times however remains the same:  And The Geek shall inherit the Virtual World ! 

Happy 2010 to all of you!

Indusgeeks partnered with Digital Touch EBusiness ( also known as Olive Global, outside of  UAE) , a Dubai based company, to develop and deliver an integrated virtual transport simulation for its Government client in Dubai.

The primary challenge was to create an easy-to-access virtual simulation that would allow citizens and tourists to explore and learn about the features and benefits of the city-state’s integrated public transportation system.

Our solution – was the creation of a first of its kind, browser-based, full 3D virtual transport simulation using Adobe Shockwave 3D. The application is designed to run on low-end hardware and bandwidth configurations.

In addition to this, we also created a range of promotional Second Life videos (machinimas) to showcase the transport system’s facilities and benefits for the various segments of Dubai’s population.

To the best of our knowledge this is the first of it’s kind governmental deployment of such technology in the Middle East market.

With over 50,000 visitors to the portal, the solution has been running successfully since its   launch in September 2009.

To experience the virtual metro, please visit http://virtualtransport.rta.ae

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