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Via: Second Chance Trees and and The Click Heard Round the World
Second Chance Trees, conceived, designed and developed by Converseon in support of its project partner Plant-It 2020, utilizes the power of social media to support proper planting, maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as possible.
Continue reading "Serious Games: Second Chance Trees Reforestation Project" »
Serious Games redefining our relationship with the physical world
Continue reading "OutdoorAR: Serious Games Without Frontiers" »
Continue reading "YDreams: Developing Games For An Interactive Future" »
Continue reading "Serious Games: A Sizeable Market - Update" »
Continue reading "Game Developers chase Serious Games Business Models" »
Via: The Guardian - Flawless Hamilton makes it look so easy
Lewis Hamilton may not be the youngest driver to win a formula one race, but his victory in yesterday's Canadian grand prix will take its place among the most remarkable achievements in the history of the sport. As the first driver whose approach to the job comes close to matching the sophistication of his machine, he has single-handedly raised the stakes for his own generation and those to come.Continue reading "Formula One Leveraging On Serious Games and Neuroscience" »
Continue reading "Serious Games For Customer Relationship Management" »
Continue reading "Serious Games Tackle Corporate Email Overload" »
Via: Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government /Government Innovators Network- Companies put "Serious Games" to work
If 20-something pilots can use simulators to train for catastrophes, so should a 20-something restaurant or retail manager.
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Continue reading "Serious Games For Improving Business Process Management" »
Synthravels is the first travel organization to offer a guide service to anyone who wants to tour highly-hyped virtual worlds like Second Life or World of Warcraft. The increasing complexity of virtual worlds is making them more interesting, fun and potentially lucrative. But it's also creating a considerable threshold for newbies, especially for those who have little or no experience with online gaming...
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At the early stages of the "Serious Game" movement, in many cases they were made available to users free of charge or distributed within the client organization, which means there was usually no sales revenue stream for the developer.
I have been posting on Global Kids major breakthroughs since the very first days of this blog.
Even though I have already published 18 posts under a dedicated category, I felt compelled to transcribe Rafi Santos most recent article which, in my view, is a superb showcase on GK best practices for bringing a youth development model into Teen Second Life. Besides, it works as a summarized retrospective of Global Kids most successful journey in the field of Serious Games.
Continue reading "Serious Games Best Practices: Globals Kids Modeling The Future" »
Via: The Next.Net - Entropia Sells Virtual Banking Licenses
The line between the virtual and the real economy just got blurrier. Swedish-based MindArk, maker of the online virtual world Entropia Universe, announced last week that it sold five banking licenses for a total of $400,000.
Continue reading "Serious Games Making Money Leap From Virtual Into Real World" »
Continue reading "Emotiv Systems and NeuroSky: Connecting Brains To Games" »
World Without Oil - Serious Games and online social networking
As anticipated on my previous post Playing Serious Games Into A New Way Of Acting, and sprung from the imagination of San Jose gamemaker Ken Eklund, the Internet game began April 30 at www.worldwithoutoil.org.
Continue reading "WWO: Serious Games For Lower-Consumption Practices" »
Game Production Services' (GPS) main client is the U.S. Army.
GPS creates games and simulated training environments for the Army that allow soldiers to be trained for dangerous and complicated field maneuvers in a safe, virtual environment.Continue reading "Serious Games: Not A Hit-Driven Business ????" »
WHAT IS THE TRUST PROJECT
The Trust project is an immersive, storytelling game and healing environment for young people, with human movement interaction triggered by a haptic chair.
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Serious games use entertainment principles, creativity, and technology to meet government or corporate training objectives, but these principles alone will not guarantee that the intended learning will occur.
Continue reading "Serious Games For Human Error Reduction" »
CNET News.com -- Meet the metaverse, your new digital home by Daniel Terdiman, April 13, 2007
What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When you use a virtual Earth to navigate the physical Earth, and your avatar becomes your online agent? What happens is the metaverse.
That was the general picture painted in the draft report that summarizes the conclusions of several dozen pundits who met at the first Metaverse Roadmap Summit last May to prognosticate the "pathway to the 3D Web."
Continue reading "More on Serious Games As Pathways To 3D Web" »
April 10, 2007 - by Ian Bogost
Starbucks Coffee and Global Green USA have created Planet Green Game, a game about energy conservation and consumption.
The practice of using video games as an advertising vehicle is as old as the games industry itself. Early Sega racing games for the Atari 2600 console featured Marlboro display ads on the raceway, and high-profile early-'90s titles such as Zool and the FIFA International series contained ads for Chupa Chups and Adidas, respectively.
Continue reading "Serious Games Are Getting Down To Business" »
Via: The Birmingham Post
As the Serious Games Institute is officially launched at Coventry University, business reporter Joanna Geary examines the growth of the computer games market, one of the region's fastest-growing industries.
It is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. By tapping into how we might play the computer games of the future is exactly what will ensure the continued success of one of the region’s fastest-growing industries.
Via: Lumos Labs - A new company in the "brain fitness" business
Lumosity Brain Fitness: Brain Games and Memory Improvement
Lumosity is an engaging online course consisting of games and exercises scientifically proven to improve your attention, memory and processing speed.
Continue reading "Serious Games From The Battlefield To The Board Room" »
by Kassandra Barnes, Raymond C. Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris
A decade ago, the first wave of the Net Generation began to enter college, forcing educational institutions to deal with a new population of learners with unique characteristics. With the Net Generation representing nearly 7% of the population today and with nearly 49.5 million students enrolled in schools in 2003, responding to the specific needs of this generation of learners is becoming increasingly important.
Continue reading "Net Geners' Learning Styles and Serious Games" »
Via Business Intelligence Network
by Richard Hackathorn
Published: 21 March 2007
Author's note: A contributor to this article is Eric Hackathorn, who is responsible for the development of NOAA Island in Second Life as an example of using virtual worlds for science outreach.
"There is a convergence of new technologies that I believe will change the nature of business intelligence (BI) in enterprises. Several decades of advances have evolved business intelligence from passive reporting to active involvement. We are not only moving data and its analysis closer to people, but people are interacting at deeper cognitive levels. It has become part of their professional lives both rationally and emotionally."
Continue reading "Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence" »
Jamais Cascio, CRN's Global Futures Strategist, has written another excellent article for his Open the Future blog, this one on "Rehearsing the Future" through serious game-playing:
