Comments on: Can Second Life be used as a reliable Corporate Training Tool?

By: “The Bureaucratic Class” isn’t what is holding back Second Life | Adventures in Corporate Education

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:11:26 +0000

[...] First of all, let’s talk a little bit about Second Life. In my experience, it’s not an application that can be integrated into an enterprise environment. I tried, our [...]

By: Pau Left

Pau Left — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:03:39 +0000

I checked out SL a while ago to see if it could be used in the professional development activities that I run, and came to a similar conclusion (http://www.verso.co.nz/professional-development/114/why-i-am-not-yet-using-virtual-worlds-in-my-work/).

A complicating factor in this part of the world is that even quite large institutions don’t have the bandwidth to make it feasible.

Another serious issue for me is that the learning required for just getting around in SL is too great for many of the people I work with in comparison with the rewards. Tech enthusiasts love to learn about such systems by playing and exploring – but lots of other people just want a tool that is quick and easy to use.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:49:12 +0000

The network issues – that’s a company policy. Nothing related to SL about that, other than the architecture of SL not being White List friendly.

My issues have to do with close scheduling, sim population limits, and the insistence on synchronous access in a global environment.

By: cafaulkner

cafaulkner — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:48 +0000

Ok… I understood very little about that. I am not a computer guru and some of the terminology has thrown me off but I understand the gist of it.
Any big program like that will have problems with proxyied networks. So,,, i can’t really answer the question of what is wrong, I am still on that learning curve.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:21:36 +0000

Re: What’s wrong with this picture?

Let me offer my sincere and public apology to gminks. It occurred to me that I was playing unfairly with this story by characterizing it as a kind of “what not to do” when I *really* wanted to make the point that this is a really common practice relative to educational activity in Second Life and why this practice is so problematic.

I meant no disrespect to gminks or her efforts on behalf of her company.

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phaedrus » Blog Archive » What’s Wrong With This Picture? — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:02:25 +0000

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By: gminks

gminks — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:49:39 +0000

Chris that is a really neat site! Is the code all flash (not some proprietary code like SL?) That would be nice – then you have reusable objects.
I was checking out this:
http://www.maidmarian.com/MariansWorldOne.htm

By: chris brannigan

chris brannigan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:10:49 +0000

Have you tried maidmarion virtual worlds? They are massively multiplayer online worlds – no educational content but I would be interested in the experience of it on your network. It runs through Shockwave but gives good 3D fidelity. It should be much lighter to run and more friendly for your IT managers. If so, we serious games developers might be better off developing in this instead of heavy install systems like SL.

By: MadCat

MadCat — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:06:00 +0000

Sounds like SL is too much like RL to be a good substitute !

By: gminks

gminks — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:15:04 +0000

Can you elaborate on how Open Grid would help in the situation I’ve described?