How Corporations Use Virtual Worlds

Real Enterprises Work Successfully Inworld Today

Visionary corporations from around the globe, such as Michelin, IBM, and Xerox, have all established and grown significant presences in Second Life. They are working in Second Life in a wide variety of ways--from holding meetings, conducting training, to building product prototypes or simulating business situations in a safe learning environment.

Meetings, Events, and Networking

Second Life encourages engagement between users and provides exciting new means for conducting meetings and conferences, conducting focus groups, executing customer research and recruiting, as well as fostering a recordable dialogue in your community. Second Life enables direct interactive engagement among colleagues and with target audiences in an immersive 3D environment that includes voice, text, video, document sharing, and a whole host of other collaboration tools.

Here's how it works. Within Second Life, individuals can publicly communicate with one another in text or 3D spatial voice chat while private conversations can be held among designated groups or with direct one-to-one texts and voice channels. Meeting virtually allows keynote speakers to address an entire group while subgroups can maintain communication and share thoughts, ideas and reactions. The platform supports multiple languages and real-time text chat translators are available.

We have also partnered with Rivers Run Red, the makers of Immersive Workspaces, to deliver a world class presentation and meeting solution.

Check out the new IBM case study to learn how IBM has utilized the Second Life environment for their global team meetings.

Corporate Training

Second Life provides a safe and powerful platform for interactive learning experiences, whether in a classroom setting or in an environment that simulates dangerous or expensive equipment or scenarios. Learn new languages, rehearse presentations, try out new ideas, practice new skills and functions, and learn without risk of damage or injury.

Use Second Life to bring a new dimension to training events, research, professional certification, and compliance. Rapidly develop employee skills to prepare for complex real-world situations. Trainees can participate in team building activities and training via Second Life, from distributed locations anywhere in the world. Learning and interacting together in 3D immersive space creates the sense of concurrent immersive experience. This shared experience improves motivation, training retention and teamwork as a result of heightened sensory engagement and the opportunity for collective activity and communication. Unlike other e-learning technologies, Second Life can bring trainees and their instructors into the same physical space where they can feel as if they are inhabiting the same world at the same time and can affect and be effected by one another.

3D Prototyping and Simulation

Second Life enables participants from distributed geographical locations to prototype products, simulate business situations, and rehearse training scenarios—all in real-time.

Make use of Second Life simulations and models to avoid the expense and logistical hassle of scheduling, maintaining or reparing real world training devices. Enable clients, employees or sales leads to view or interact with models and simulations from anywhere in the world in a safe environment you can control. Avoid risk of damage to one of a kind real world models and products by sharing and collaborating with a Second Life replica. Create simulations to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of a product prototype without the real world material expense. Allow for collaborative design work and product development testing before you engage manufacturing. Conduct group simulation training in an immersive 3D environment that leverages multi-sensory engagement for greater training retention and teamwork. Create proof of concept models that can be quickly and inexpensively altered or reproduced to suit your customization needs, manage proprietary information or create safe solutions to security or clearance issues.

Create training simulators, product prototypes and data visualization models without the expense or difficult learning curves for new software applications or lengthy periods of training and development. Second Life comes complete with standard build tools that make the creation of content and models accessible to all users. Use the built-in tools to create your own custom models and simulation environments or select a Solution Provider from our Solution Provider Directory to commission custom builds to your specifications with a fraction of the real world cost or time investment.

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