Virtual Meetings February 2010

Purpose We are piloting virtual meetings to mitigate the time to conventional meetings. – We will enjoy greater flexibility with a virtual venue. – We can bring distinguished speakers at no cost. We can gain expertise in the virtual technology that is an evolving business area for areas like immersive training, simulations and visualization.

Virtual Venue Global Reach Facilities exist, convenient to set up and attend Advantage over telecon – Spatial recognition/cues – Relate, engage, participate, demo – Voice, chat and messaging – 3Dexplore, immersive training – Bring simulation into meeting space IMMERSION

Virtual Venue The Venue is also a topic! Compare to: DIMDIM Webex, GOTMEETING, etc. Telecon Webcam (note Wash section adcom) Conventional to Innovative

Virtual World Military Application Conference 23 March Federal Consortium, May Wounded Warrior Program Other worlds: SLE, OLIVE, opensim, …. Interesting in-world opportunities (groups) – Architectural WG (e.g. interoperability standards) – Social implication, AI, applications, education and training, MICA-VW and more

Recent Lessons from Immersive Training Benefits (Karen Cooper, NAWC) – Engagement – Co-presence – Psychological engagement Cost Effective Progression (Michael Macedonia, SAIC) – Level 1 – passive – Level 2 – limited participation – Level 3 – complex participation – Level 4 – real-time participation

Audience OutReach – IEEE CS W/NV (NCA) chapter, region 2, CAB/MGA – IEEE societies (joint COMSOC, Photonics Soc, sys council, RAS, SA) – Affiliates -ACM, Software Quality – Students already in SL Advertising – Newsletter, E-notice, e-calendar – IEEE and CS Chapter website, IEEE R2 and CS pres blog – LinkedIn, twitter, google wave – SL

Administration Viewers – Second Life – Greenlife Emerald Viewer – Snowglobe Connections – SL groups – LinkedIn – Google Wave – Twitter

Topics and Activities Presentations Artifical Intelligence Learning Center IEEE ModSim SL TV (ieee.tv) Pursuing SL (Linden Labs) Electronic Communicat Artificial Intelligence - GAs, chatbots Virtual roadmap SL enterprise edition Model Federation Security Immersive Training medical architecture Markets and business models 3D wiki tree Intellectual Property Robots More modsim Discussion forum Group chat/IM Meeting places Distribution Tours IEEE Island Virtual Collaboration Environment Military Lands Science Island GUSL (government users of second life?) Military Lands (SLURL provided in chat) NOAA sphere (presence on SL) IRS presence on SL Expressed Interest Business cards Web trimmer Event logger, sign-in Motorola effort (sounds like motion capture …but need clarification) Google Chrome, Google Wave, Twiitter, LinkedIn

Learned Ettiquette – Mic/headset (no echo) – Titler for ID Tutorials, internet resources DEMONSTRATIONS Organize committees, projects SL roadmap Tours – Interesting places – Exchange Landmarks (IEEE and elsewhere) – Animation and Movies – AI tour guides