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Game-Changing Technologies (and

Philosophies)

David BurdenDaden Limited

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About Daden

Virtual Worlds solution provider In Virtual Worlds since late 1990s, and Second Life since 2004 World-class capability in Integration and Artificial Intelligence Linden Lab Gold Partner Member, Serious Games Institute Based in Birmingham UK, and Second Life Winner Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT 2009 Winner US Government Federal Virtual World Challenge 2010

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What We Do….

Built Environment Visualisation

and Consultation

Artificial Intelligence

and Web Integration

Collaboration, Meetings

and Data Visualisation

Learning, Training and Education

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Virtual World Development

UserInterface

Physics

Functionality

Rendering

AvatarAppearance

AvatarInteraction

Virtual Agents

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Worlds vs Platforms

ScopeOf Action

Range/Number/Complexity of Goals

SeriousGames

Simulations

Virtual Worlds

Game engine

Simulation engine

Virtual World engine

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Applications in/as Worlds

SkillsTraining

OpsMgt/Trg

DataViz

/Intel

BuildingDesign

RemoteMeetings/

Confs

Collabor-ation

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

Game/Simulation/Virtual World

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Virtual Worlds as User Interface

Different Virtual World User InterfacesWeb/Mobile User Interfaces

Web Management Interfaces

Virtual World Web

Web Services

SkillsTraining

OpsMgt/Trg

DataViz

/Intel

BuildingDesign

RemoteMeetings/

Confs

Collabor-ation

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