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“better than being there”
Ralph Sklarew Julia Loughran
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rsklarew@gmail.com loughran@thoughtlink.com
Slide 2: Coalition Working on Common Vision
Experience and interest in
– Application development – Human factors and usability – Virtual team, meeting and leadership: development, support and evaluation – Branding and marketing
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Slide 3: Our Common Vision
• Online workplaces are 3D simulated collaborative settings for distributed teams to really work together • Business model: purchase or rental of full offices or meeting rooms with supporting services through software licensing and consulting
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Slide 4: Using bThere
Brings context to collaboration with “place”
– participants visualized in settings – move about, see and talk with each other – use simulated equipment (apps, services) – immersive, focused, high “brainwidth”
Any computer can host shared workspace:
– cell phone with a thin client 1/17/07 bThere "better than being there" – fully immersive PC system
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Slide 5: Workspaces: Simulated Settings
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Meeting and conference rooms Convention facilities Bullpen of individual cubicles Full service offices Informal spaces Aesthetic scenes
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Slide 6: bThere Advantages
• Workplace that is recognizable and meaningful • Integrates people, places, software and services • Subsumes current 2D document metaphor • Control over decoration, objects and animation • Greater focus and higher bandwidth into brain • Enables imagination by reducing constraints
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Slide 7: Design Goals
• Productivity enhancement for individuals and teams • Simplicity for new users and power for pros • Delight in aesthetics and affordances
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Slide 8: 1. Tech Requirements
• High fidelity avatar
– user likeness for recognition & trust in business – mimic user actions: lip sync, facial expressions, gestures, body language
• Simple and powerful commands
– view point: zoom, pan, scan – actions: movement, equipment use, interaction – keyboard, position controller, on-screen buttons, voice
• User control
– decorate, build, animate, simulate
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Slide 9: 2. Tech Requirements
• Streaming multimedia
– multiple streams – direction and position dependent – voice: positional, transcription by recognition
• Recording
– audio, video, re-play, indexed by transcript
• Application and services integration
– represented as office equipment and
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Slide 10: 3. Tech Requirements
• High fidelity environment
– business setting, equipment and facilities – white board, projector, computer, wall charts, TV
• User system
– thin client (no software installation) for cell phones, PDAs, and public and shared PCs – full immersion with multiple displays, microphones and speakers (or headset), and cameras
• Installable
– public, private, secure servers – interoperable avatar and assets
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Slide 11: bThere Markets
Start with small group workplaces
• Meeting rooms
– teleconference, telepresence – presentations, discussions, training
• Offices
– home office, shared offices, telecommute centers – virtual teams for remote offices, consulting and contracting, outsourcing – travel facilities: airports, hotels, conventions
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Slide 12: 1. “better than being there”
Better than voice, video, web conferencing
– shared space to really work together – individual controls his view, movement, interaction and equipment – fuller engagement, more focus – higher bandwidth into brain – at a user’s desk, cell phone – always on (like IM)
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Slide 13: 2. “better than being there”
Better than software
– simulated place to personalize – recognized place for work – integrates applications and services – extends 2D document metaphor – teams work together
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Slide 14: 3. “better than being there”
Better than being there in person
– reduced travel time, cost, risk, stress – integration of applications and services in innovative ways beyond reality – mutable physics: fly, teleport, explore within operating (simulated) systems – only limited by imagination with “holo decks” and “replicators”
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Slide 16: DreamTai Office Presentation in SL
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Slide 17: CranialTap Offices in Second Life
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Slide 18: Depo Consulting Offices in SL
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Slide 19: DreamTai Office 3D Data Display
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Slide 20: CranialTap Desk in Second Life
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Slide 21: Grozik Associates Offices in SL
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Slide 22: Sun Project MPK20 Workroom
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Slide 23: Qwaq 3D Model Collaboration
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Slide 24: Tixeo Meeting 3D Room
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