Our focus is enterprise-level Immersive Internet - the evolution of Virtual World and Internet technologies to provide complete environments for coordination/communication, learning/teaching, selling/buying, innovate, and other critical business activities.
Erica Driver, co-founder and principal at ThinkBalm and formerly an analyst with Forrester Research, will introduce this topic. See http://thinkbalm.com/... and her definition of Immersive Internet at http://thinkbalm.com/...
Her talk is entitled "How to convince the boss you’re not off your rocker: Getting buy-in for enterprise Immersive Internet initiatives", which is based on her recent VW Expo presentation.
Afterward, we will take a tour of SL places that demonstrate Immersive Internet applications in business, arts, and science.
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SL Landing Point: http://slurl.com/seco...
RL Landing Point: Classroom 104 at the Atlas Institute on the University of Colorado campus. The class is on the same floor as the lobby down the hallway to the left. A map is at... http://www.colorado.e... and the floorplan is at... http://www.colorado.e...
Park in the Euclid AutoPark next to the UMC (student center), which is very close to Atlas. After 5:00 parking is $3 for the entire evening. Arrive around 5:00 and join us for a quick dinner at the UMC. Vic's Coffee Shop in the Atlas lobby is open until 6:00 for lattes. Afterwards, we usually have a quick drink at a nearby pub (Dark Horse or Southern Sun) to ponder the evening's insights.
There is excellent WiFi with a guest CU login. Our 'smart' classroom has movable small tables with hookups to four projectors/LCDs, so there are several SL activities going on simultaneously. Bring a long video cable if you can.
Join the SL Group "Serious SL Meetup of Boulder" and listen for group notices with our agenda attached. Enable SL Voice and join the SL group IM/voice session.
VIRTUAL ATTENDEES: We are committed to 'blended meetings' meaning that it should not matter whether you attend in the real world or the virtual world. We are trying to improve our techniques a bit each month.
“ Erica obviously has a great deal of experience in virtual worlds and that came through in a fantastic presentation. ”
“ Definitely a better meetup than an equivalent real-world meeting ”
“ Sadly I drove around Boulder and the DU campus for an hour and ended up driving home :( ”
“ Really liked Erica Driver's presentation -- lots of thought-provoking ideas... ”
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