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Immersive VR / Virtual Worlds as an educational platform

I would be interested in hearing from the members who have already explored the use of VWs (such as SL) for educational activities. Please contact me here, by email (george@astro.caltech.edu), or in SL (avi = Curious George), and maybe we'll set up a virtual discussion or two. Thanks!

Tags: Immersive, Life, Second, VR, Virtual, Worlds

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Permalink Reply by Steve Guynup on September 12, 2010 at 5:35pm

Hello George,

I've been building virtual worlds for about 15 years now.
Some history of my work is here:

http://noel.pd.org/~thatguy/exit/in_video.html
http://www.web3ddesign2010.org/sub_students.html

I currently use Exit Reality, but am moving to Instant Reality & Deep Matrix (if my friends at Virginia Tech set things up). My focus on is college level - synchronous teaching, in a non SL platform...

regards
Steve

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