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Virtual culture training for soldiers
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 13:50 | 0 comments
Thanks to a link from ACM TechNews, I've been reading that folks at the University of Texas have been doing some research into the use of virtual worlds for training soldiers (click for the article). The focus of the training is dealing with cultural situations. I'm not a particularly well-travelled person myself, but I can imagine that even the slightest differences in cultural interpretation of verbal and non-verbal cues can become major issues in a conflict scenario.Another SL presentation tool: Slide Wheel
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:01 | 0 comments
My supervisor (Daniel) and I were giving a SLOODLE presentation at a conference in Second Life today. When we were discussing it earlier this week, Daniel suggested a really novel way of presenting the slides... and since I'm never one to back down from a programming challenge, I built it!
Kudos to Jesse Barnett (SL name) for creating this fun variant on my Stackable Graph Cubes. You can download the script for Sandbox Blox from Jesse's wiki page, checkout the forum discussion on Scripting Tips.