Building 3D Objects in Second Life: A short video tutorial
Stumble It!I believe that products like Second Life could provide powerful immersive platforms to link together web applications (eg via web services) in much more engaging ways for various collaborative group applications such as team games and business simulations.
As part of this exploration Justin, one of my research assistants, designed and built a Bioteams 2L Corporate HQ complete with reception, wooden flooring, signage, lift and large screen video player.
Here is a short video tutorial (4 mins) showing how its done.
About Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson is an expert practitioner in the area of bioteaming, swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities, virtual teams and management simulation and has published two landmark books:
Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs
The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks
Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams.
Ken is also founder of an exciting European technology company Swarmteams which provides unique patent-pending bioteaming technologies for all shapes and sizes of groups, social networks, business clusters, virtual/mobile communities and enterprises. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques.
The latest Swarmteams implementation is SwarmTribes which helps social object owners (e.g. musicians/bands, sports teams, film-makers) and good cause sponsors (e.g. Volunteering, Environmental, Public Health) to form unique collaborations with their fans/supporters for mutual benefit.
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Hey Dude,
Really your thought will be a great mainstream for those who are looking for Digital Signage. As it sounds very good though i would like to light it at the wall of my facebook.
Using second life in any business is useful, just look at Nike who had a store where custoemrs could design their own trainers then they introduced it to their stores.
I like your ideas - works well.
Graham