The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast » VW017 - Ron Edwards, Ambient Performance

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Welcome to Episode Seventeen of The Virtual Worlds BusinessCast, brought to you by Voices in Business. Today’s show features an interview with Ron Edwards, President of Ambient Performance, a firm specializing in mobile solutions, Web 2.0 collaborative technologies and Virtual Worlds.

Ambient partners with Forterra Systems, creators of OLIVE (the On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment), which is increasingly being used as an Enterprise Virtual World platform in both the private and public sector (by, amongst others, military and intelligence organizations).

I spoke with Ron about how and where OLIVE is being used and how it differs from Second Life.

Show notes for this episode:

00:12 - Mike O’Hara introduction
01:01 - Start of interview
01:31 - Some background on Ron & Ambient Performance
03:17 - How Forterra’s OLIVE differs from Second Life
05:15 - Training/simulation and collaboration
05:50 - Role-playing & real-world physics
07:05 - Interoperability with real-world systems
08:21 - Single sign-ons, LDAP and authentication
09:01 - Photo-realistic avatars
09:39 - Technology and culture of business collaboration
11:40 - Carbon reduction and cost reduction
12:48 - The learning curve
15:20 - Security, stability and reliability
17:40 - Use of OLIVE by military, defence & intelligence agencies
19:30 - Where to find out more
20:20 - There.com
21:06 - Upcoming events
21:48 - End of interview and wrap-up

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Links:

Ambient Performance website
Ambient Connections blog
Forterra Systems - screenshots & videos
YouTube video playlist of OLIVE in action
SGI & Serious Virtual Worlds Conference, Sep 2008  
Enterprise Virtual Worlds Seminar, May 2008 
There.com

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