Serious Virtual Worlds, Coventry (Day 2)

Notes from the second day.

Tim Foresman – Digitial Earth and Virtual Worlds

• [Moving and powerful call to action.  Quoted ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’ by Buckminster Fuller]
• http://earthparty.org

Lizbeth Goodman  – Virtual worlds community applications

• [I don’t mind admitting I was nearly moved to tears by Lizbeth’s presentation. Severely disabled children being given the means to play games and explore beautiful custom-built worlds, leaving their mark in those spaces. Severely disabled adults being given the ability to create music.]
• http://smartlab.uk.com 

LeRoy Heinrichs – Serious worlds for biology and medicine

• History: Frog Island – VRML
• Detailed models to represent asphyxia and blast trauma patients. Used Forterra’s OLIVE, with instructors and physicians. Triage and treatment.

Richard Smithies, TruSim (Serious Games division of BlitzGames)- Creating a medical training game

• UK games industry is bigger than the UK film industry
• There’s a lot of hype: “be careful”.
• Interactive Trauma Trainer
• Battlefield Trauma Trainer
• “there is a preference for high fidelity”

Claus Nehmzow, PA Consulting

• Engagement with community.
• Wages for greeters: L$350. “We don’t know who they are”. 

Roo Reynolds, Virtual worlds for corporate collaboration

• Yep. That’s me. My presentation, complete with audio, is online.

Dave Taylor, NPL – VWs for informal education and knowledge transfer

• SciLands. Some amazing (high profile!) projects there. NASA, NOAA, JPL, and lots more.
• The IBM rhodopsin molecule got a mention. Yay.
• Second Health, NHS project.

Majid Al-Kader – Logicity

• http://enconcity.com
• http://logicity.co.uk

Jim Piggot, CEO TPLD – Applying serious games to curriculum for excellence

• Nice example of a hockey game.

Update:All presentation materials are now online via the Serious Games Institute

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