Presentation Format Pecha Kucha pronounced pechakcha 11707 b

Presentation Format: Pecha Kucha (pronounced pe-chak-cha) 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 1

b T h ere T e c hnol ogies “better than being there” Ralph Sklarew Julia Loughran rsklarew@gmail. com loughran@thoughtlink. com

About our group: The b. There Coalition Application Development Human Factors Marketing/Branding Teams/Virtual Work 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 3

Our Common Vision • Online 3 D workplaces that provides shared spaces and a collaboration environment integrating people, places and software. 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 4

Sample Applications: Virtual Meetings 1/17/07 www. tixeo. com b. There "better than being there" 5

Virtual Conferences http: //nswlearnscope. com (using Second Life) Scene from DHS OIC conference in NOAA’s Meteora island built to simulate a city tha destroyed by a tsunami http: //www. homelandsecurity. org/snapshots/newsletter/2007 -06. htm 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 6

Virtual Offices BBC’s East Midlands Today virtual bureau http: //www. bbc. co. uk/eastmidlandstoday/content/image_galleries/ emt_in_second_life. shtml? 1 Meetings/Interviews 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 7

Informal Collaboration Spaces 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 8

Virtual Training 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 9

Aesthetic Scenes 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 10

Technical Requirements: High Fidelity Avatars Photo realistic avatars by UCF and UIC 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 11

Micro Expressions Paul Eckman: The importance of Micro expressions 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 12

Improved User Interface On. Rez viewer: improved UI and better integration with web browser 1/17/07 b. There "better than being there" 13 http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=s-hg 4 q. Ca. R 74&eurl=http: //www. pinktentacle. com/2007/10/u-tsu-shi-o-mi-virtual-humanoid/