Real Life Government/Solution Providers
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Aimee Weber Studio, Inc
Description: Aimee Weber Studio, Inc is a woman-owned corporation providing information technology (IT) consulting and implementation that specializes in virtual worlds. Our team provides provides professional IT and management consulting services.
Aimee Weber Studio is a privately-held firm headquartered in Rutherford, NJ with an office located in New York.
Website: http://www.aimeeweber.com
SLURL: NOAA sims Okeanosand Meteora
Government Related Clearance/Registration/etc:
Government Related Portfolio: The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's and the Earth System Research Laboratory(ESRL)sim is called Meteora,which is derived from the Greek adjective meteoras which means 'suspended in the air'. The 2nd sim is Okeanos. On these lovely island sims you can find fully interactive educational demonstrations about the ocean and weather including a sea life submarine ride and a tsunami.
Cranial Tap, Inc.
Description: Cranial Tap is a full service Second Life developer responsible for bringing businesses and organizations into virtual world platforms such as Second Life. We not only design and build highly engaging environments, but also embed powerful software tools to support collaboration, research and training goals.
Solutions include:
- Full service design, build, and animation capabilities
- Support for real world marketing, commerce, media, programming, and product virtualization
- Web managed environments
- Powerful metrics and analysis
- Data driven objects
- Marketing-based gaming
- Custom software solutions
- Learning/training systems
Website: http://www.cranialtap.com
Contact: Dave Levinson
Phone: (703) 879-8499
Email: info@cranialtap.com
FireSabre Consulting
Description: We are a full-service building and consulting company for Second Life (TM) (SL). We can help you design, set up, and deploy your SL presence, and provide ongoing support after delivery. We are experienced with educational and non-profit projects, on both the Main Grid and Teen Grid. We can arrange land purchase, provide terraforming, building, scripting, texturing and clothing, account creation, and other administrative services. We're familiar with external server connections to SL. Our president formerly wrote training simulations for the International Space Station. We're a Houston-based, privately-owned firm.
In addition to our commercial and government projects, FireSabre is heavily involved in K-12 education. We've supported the award-winning Ramapo/Suffern project for three years. Ramapo(newer) Ramapo(older)
Website: http://www.firesabre.com
SLURL: Examples of our builds
Government Related Clearance/Registration/etc:
Government Related Portfolio: We built a climate monitoring satellite exhibit for National Physical Laboratory (NPL) which is the UK’s National Measurement Institute. Also, we're collaborating with NASA Learning Technologies. http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov POC: stephanie.l.smith AT nasa.gov.
Maya Realities
Description: The importance of understanding customer behavior is critical for a successful business. Until recently, the necessary tools have not existed for virtual world environments like Second Life. Maya Realities allows your 3-D web site based in Second Life to connect with visitors at a new level of analysis. We offer a variety of analytics to meet your needs as well as database back-ended feedback surveys and an API to measure interaction with your existing virtual objects. As the emerging 3-D Internet takes shape, what better way is there to verify the return on your investment?
Website: http://www.mayarealities.com/
Phone: (303) 872-7715
Email: sales@mayarealities.com
SLURL: Maya Realities Second Life Office
Government Related Portfolio: Maya Realities has worked with a variety of governmental agencies including the DOD, NASA, NOAA, NIH, and the UK's NPL.
The SLAgency
Description: The SLAgency is a full service Second Life developer and marketing agency. We provide turnkey solutions for our clients, which range from popular consumer brands to private government agencies. We have all of the necessary resources to help you bring your Second Life initiative to life, from the creative design to the promotion and marketing to the staffing and management.
The SLAgency also boasts 25+ years of event marketing experience through parent company Moderne Promotions, and has the unique capability of promoting your initiatives in both worlds. The SLAgency is located in Long Island, New York and has a satellite office in San Francisco.
Website: http://www.theslagency.com
Contact: Joe Mastrocovi, Managing Partner
Phone: (516) 694-1231 X11
Email: Joe@TheSLAgency.com
SLURL: ACTIV8 Islands
Government Related Portfolio: In October 2007, ACTIV8 Islands hosted the Doing Business 2008 Report launch event, presented by World Bank reaching an audience spanning 101 countries nationwide.
In 2008, Ontario Public Services' job recruitment sim will open, presenting visiting avatars with the opportunity to take an interactive look at available jobs in the Ontario province.
NMC Virtual Worlds
Description: NMC Virtual Worlds is an IT services unit of the New Media Consortium (NMC), a small business organized as 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. The NMC is a consortium of nearly 300 world-class universities, museums, and research centers focused on the applications of emerging technologies. NMC Virtual Worlds provides a comprehensive range of services for virtual worlds, and works in multiple platforms. NMC can support any size effort with project management; architectural services; landscape and terraform designs; buildout and development services; event and meeting services; and strategic consulting. See our website for more, including our client list and portfolio (http://virtualworlds.nmc.org)
Website: http://virtualworlds.nmc.org
SLURLs:
- National Health Service / Second Health London (2 sims) http://slurl.com/secondlife/National%20Health%20Service/130/50/26/
- Centers for Disease Control (1 sim) http://slurl.com/secondlife/CDC%20Island/189/66/22/
- Cleveland Plus (7 sims) http://slurl.com/secondlife/ClevelandPlus%20III/198/156/27/
Government Related Clearance/Registration/etc: Pending
Government Related Portfolio:
1) The Second Health Project, created for the National health Service in the UK. This multiple-sim project included a series of videos shot entirely in Second Life, the creation of an entire hospital, special avatars to represent a variety of patients and conditions, specific modeling of medical equipment of all kinds, costumes, animations, interactivity, and recreations of various areas around metropolitan London. See http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/portfolio/second-health/
2) CDC Island, created for the Centers for Disease Control, serves as the headquarters for the CDC in Second Life and provides a venue for forums, meetings, and education about the mission of the CDC.
3) Cleveland Plus, created for a cross-sector consortium in Cleveland Ohio, is built over seven sims, and includes partners from government, health care, education, libraries, foundations, museums, and the community. Key elements of the Cleveland experience are included, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,. Terminal Tower, the Science Museum, the Botanical Gardens, Roosevelt Park, the lakefront, Cleveland Trust, the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, the County Library, and the Cleveland Public School
The VITAL Lab at Ohio University
Description: The VITAL Lab, which stands for Virtual Immersive Technologies and Arts for Learning (VITAL) Laboratory, is a multidisciplinary research and development facility at Ohio University. The main mission of the VITAL Lab is to create realistic virtual environments and synthetic worlds for use in educational settings. The VITAL Lab is a truly unique collaboration of several areas of interest, including: The Russ College of Engineering and Technology (specifically the Computer Science program), the College of Education (the Instructional Technology program), the College of Fine Arts (the Aesthetic Technologies Lab) and Ohio University Without Boundaries. The VITAL Lab is devoted to creating interactive and immersive virtual environments to enhance learning and collaboration.
The VITAL Lab is a non-profit activity under Ohio University, our full-time staff of project managers and artists supervise a team of students with a very wide range of areas of study, including fine arts, game development, interior design, video production, computer programming, and journalism.
Website: http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu
SLURLs:
- Information Resources Management College Island(1 sim) http://slurl.com/secondlife/IRMC%20Info%20Leader/124/133/23
- Ohio University(6 sims) http://slurl.com/secondlife/OHIO%20Outreach/128/128/0
Government Related Clearance/Registration/etc: As part of a public university, the VITAL Lab meets all requirements for government related contract work. The Assistant director of the VITAL Lab is recently retired from the Air Force with a current Top Secret/SCI clearance and experience working through government system certification issues.
Government Related Portfolio:
1) The IRMC Info Leader Sim, created for the Information Resources Management College which is part of the National Defense University based at Fort McNair in Washington DC. The VITAL Lab was the subcontractor under Net2Net-Solutions on this project which included a welcome center, a conference center, and a crisis center.
2) Ohio University Sims, created as a virtual presence for Ohio University in Second Life. This virtual university includes two fully developed sims and four islands for future growth and learning activities.
3) Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum project, the Smithsonian Latino Center has asked the VITAL lab to create a large 9 island Latino Virtual Museum in Second Life to host their vast collection of digital artifacts. This exciting work is just getting underway but should be open to the public around January 2009.