Istania:Bart Pursel

Second Life @ IST

An Introduction

Welcome to Second Life

Virtual World

Avatar Driven

Is it a game?

Socializing

Building

Storytelling

Games

Education

What Goes on in SL?

Socializing

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Storytelling

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Games

Education

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The Numbers

Accounts Created: 5.5m

Unique visits last 60 days: 1.5m

Online at any given time: 20k-40k

IST @ PSU: 20

ist.psu.edu/secondlife: 30

IST’s Island

Istania Day 1

Istania Now

Tutorial space

Library of online resources and content sharing

ist.psu.edu/secondlife

Island layout

Gerry’s courses

Welcome Center

Training workshops

Student-driven content creation and scripting

Alumni Community

Campaigns

Current Projects

Summer 07

Policies

Development Standards

Advisory Board

Proposal Template

Island Content

Collaboration Opportunities

Fall 07

Round out content

Allocate land for class projects and research

Lecture Series

Student presence

Examples

Who’s in Second Life?

IT Companies

Government Agencies

Universities

Sporting Leagues

...and a lot more!

Dell Schematics

ExamplesIBM

Big money

EBO

Social Network

Meetings

Training

Recruitment

IBM Schematics

Examples

NOAA

Glaciers

Hurricanes

Tsunamis

NOAA Glacier

NOAA Glacier

Examples

Harvard

Online Class

Guest Speakers

Harvard Theater

Examples

Politicians

Q&A

The NBA

Other Examples

Civil War Design

Ancient Egypt field trip

Gas training

Architecture

Recent ItemsSloodle

Sweden Embassy

Virtual Amsterdam $50k

Second Life Search

IBM CodeStation

Similar to gaming technology - familiarity

Immersive and engaging

Possibilities not feasible in reality

Companies are investing heavily

SL experience is leading to jobs

Why Invest in SL?

EULA/IP agreement

Infrastructure provided

Open Source project underway

Interest is high

Alternatives

Activeworlds, There, Multiverse, Metaverse, more...

SL is Unique

Recruiting

Case Studies

Distributed meetings, seminars, collaborative space

Testbed for prototyping/design

Visualization

Large community

Potential for non-UP collaboration, OIST and WC integration

Advantages

Learning curve

Hardware requirements

PSU Lab Support

Mature content

Hacks

Disadvantages

Questions?