Reflections on Immersive Environments Webinar

Alicia Swaggerty let me know about this webinar last week and I captured the event and posted it in YouTube. It’s an hour long, so I’ll share my take-aways:VenueGen is going after the corporate marketIE’s are more engaging than…

Alicia Swaggerty let me know about this webinar last week and I captured the event and posted it in YouTube. It’s an hour long, so I’ll share my take-aways:
  • VenueGen is going after the corporate market
  • IE’s are more engaging than ELive or Connect Pro webinars
  • this particular engine allows for avatar customization to more closely represent your real-world self because they value that over fantasy projections
  • this interface makes affective interaction easier than Second Life, though there are specific skills and competencies that moderators and students alike would need to master
  • the cost structure is most likely significant based on the tone of the presenters
  • I would be interested in doing research based on using this tool as a replacement for live events that have a far reaching impact (for example, non-credit professional development events for PA educators)