We're proud to announce the development of a promotional machinima video created for our client Florida International University. The development consisted of our team developing the detailed storyboard along with the audio commentary. Once approved our team recorded each clip corresponding with the detailed sketched storyboard. Once we have all clips approved by the client we then mashed the video clips together using Adobe Aftereffects. Take a look at the finished development below: (take into consideration it's on youtube so it's lost quality in the conversion)! For more information on how we can create your promotional video contact us today!

Andrew has been asked to be a guest speaker at the 8th Annual Information Assurance Forum held at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. The conference will be held in the Winebrenner Theological Seminary TLB auditorium on Wednesday, October 28th from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Andrew is presenting on The Future of Virtual Worlds and Learning. This presentation will explore the current trends in the virtual world industry and what is to be expected of the next generation learner. He will also show best and worst practices of virtual worlds and how to strategically adapt a virtual world to achieve the initiatives of your organization. To learn more about the conference click here to obtain a PDF version of the agenda.

We have had many requests from people wanting to learn more about our new, innovative virtual world white board; therefore, our team decided to make a video showing all of the features that the white board provides. We are currently offering this tool to clients that develop their virtual space within Second Life and/or OpenSim through Designing Digitally, Inc. To learn more about how to be provided with this new tool contact us today.

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It has been 1 work week since we last posted a blank sim telling everyone we have started another Second Life build. Our talented designers spent the days working with the client to provide an accurate needs analysis, planning interactions and scripts, and sketching the layout for the client to approve. We are now at the point where we are starting to lay down rough structures for the client to preview. Take a look at the evolution in 1 work week from blank island to what we have below:

Keep watching our blog to watch our team mold the sim into an effective and engaging virtual learning environment.

Contact us today if your school or University is interested in having a virtual campus!

We are proud to announce the development of the Virtual Clearview web based portal / virtual world counseling center. This web based portal is used to register their mental health patients for the virtual counseling center, as well as to provide resources, agendas, and even the ability to launch the virtual world from the web site in order to have a private counseling session with their mental health facilitator. This service is currently only available to the current members of Clearview Recovery until the start of the year where they will be opening the service up to the general public. This system is fully integrated into the virtual world so that users can post questions and comments to their counselor and it will show up in the web based system. They are able to schedule appointments with their counselor using the automated system that is tied into both the virtual world and into the web site allowing for synchronization between both systems. We are proud of this development and look forward to watching Virtual Clearview provide a virtual counseling service to their clients.

We are happy to announce that we broke ground on another virtual world project today. The space will be architecturally designed as a beautiful mansion in the south Hamptons. This space will be the virtual headquarters for the client and focused on training upper management at their corporation. This client will use the virtual space to deliver distance meetings, online collaboration, and online branch meetings. Surrounding this headquarters will consist of serious game based learning tools that will allow users to interact with the space while succeeding in company assessments. We are proud to break ground on this space and will keep posting to show you the progress throughout the development. Below is a picture of the new virtual word sim and our team preparing to start the build.

Note: Sean (far left avatar) was asked to reset his avatar after this picture was taken.

He should not be taller than Andrew as he is officially the shortest person in our office. LOL!

We are proud to announce that our talented team developed a dynamic pod like classroom building with the virtual world called Second Life. This development was created for one of our non disclosed clients. This virtual spaces is setup so that each classroom is on it's own separate parcel. That way any facilitator or teacher may stream video, or audio without disrupting the other classes.  We have added customizable features to this development for facilitators. These tools will allow them to do their jobs quickly and effectively within SL. Stay tuned to see what our team builds tomorrow!

Designing Digitally is proud to announce our acceptance into the Second Life Gold Solution Providers program with Linden Lab. Of the more than 250 organizations and companies in Second Life, Designing Digitally has been selected as one of the top 31 to be apart of this program. As a member of the Gold Solution Providers we will be in direct contact with Linden Lab, along side the other development teams, in bringing all users an even better Second Life. This short list of developers will help push the creation and evolution of islands in Second Life to the next level and we are very pleased to be a big part of this exciting virtual community.

Lately our team has been building virtual campus after virtual campus and focusing on the learning aspect of the space. But sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses. These might not be a specific aspect of the learners engagement, but we love to see the detailed 3D models of the schools' mascots our developers have created. We thought that since these islands are not open to the public to view that we would provide you with snapshots of these mascots just for fun. Check them out!

We are proud to announce that we are building another virtual campus for a University! We cannot disclose who this client is at this time, but we will be posting pictures throughout the process of building it. We will be implementing advanced programming so that the virtual campus is tied directly into their Learning Management System in which allows them to create and track assessments. We will also be setting up all the multimedia on the campus such as live streaming video, interactive white boards, streaming podcasts, interactive games, and even community events. There are many other features we will be developing, but we cannot give all of our secrets away. This virtual campus will be completed by our team within 30 days! So please stop by and visit our blog to view more progress on this development. See our blank canvas below: