| Apr 29 |
Photos from Cisco Live 09 in Second LifeBack on April 19, Cheerie posted a couple of photos of work that had been completed in Second Life for Cisco Systems. Here are a couple more pictures from the rebuild of the Cisco Live area including the inside of the Photo Sphere and Video Center. The biggest change was a refresh of the “look” that matches the branding for this years Cisco Live! physical world event to be held in San Francisco.
On a personal note, I am happy with the evolution of this build. We took the comments we received last year and try to incorporate as many improvement for ease of access that we could, for example we removed the elevator that traveled up and down from the Sphere down to the Video Center and installed a simple teleport up into the sphere. While the elevator was real cool, it did not engage people enough to go up into the sphere. And it was slow. We also improved the entrance into the Video Center to make it more inviting and easier for a new Second Life user to get into the building. There were other tweaks here and there to numerous to mention. All of this is important in building a more effective engagement for Cisco and its community. I would love to hear others opinion on this build. All day events will be held here on June 30 and July 1.
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| Apr 19 |
Two Projects for CiscoBanana posted a couple of pictures on his personal blog of two projects that were recently developed by Meta Magic Studio for Cisco Systems. The first was an updating of the successful Cisco Live build that we did last year and the second was a demonstration build of Cisco EnergyWise Office. Both projects were installed at Cisco Systems Virtual Campus on the Second Life grid this past week. Banana also wrote that Dedric Mauriac did an outstanding software development job on the EnergyWise demo. I know the 3D demo was easy to use and brought to life this very cool concept. Go Cisco! Cisco Live 09 Update
Cisco EnergyWise Office
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| Jun 25 |
Cisco Live SL - June 24 Recap
Disclosure: I am a contractor for Cisco Systems and I develop their Second Life Virtual Campus. My opinions are my opinions!
Yesterday, Tuesday, June 24, I was at Cisco Live! SL all day. Lots of very well attended events going on throughout the days. Here are just three highlights: |
| Jun 18 |
Cisco Live - Packet Sort Game - “Game ON”
Cisco Live! Pavilion - Second Life The final step in any development, is the deployment. The time that you release to the world your new offering. I always enjoy these moments and believe that they should be marked with some sort of celebration or at least a big cheer. But usually, with the normal day to day activities and the typical time pressures, these deployments are never fully acknowledged, let alone celebrated. And with any deployment, there is the natural nervous anticipation of users reactions. Who will visit? How many will visit? What worked? What didn’t work? What can we improve? Are we getting the anticpated results, or is something else happening? Plus there is the dread of something not working or not being accepted or worse, not useful. I always prepare myself for the negative reviews; that way, if it does happen, I am mentally prepared. Deploying builds in Second Life come in various ways: the reveal of a secret, the slow build out, or the bang - here it is. Meta Magic Studios’ latest project which launched today is the Cisco Live SL Pavilion which is in support of the annual Cisco Live mega event being held in Orlando, Florida next week. Cisco Live is Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference. The conference features Networkers, their premier education and training program, and other special programs designed to meet the diverse needs of today’s IT and communications professional from increasing technical proficiency to understanding the impact of technology on business. (There is one planned for Johannesburg, South Africa in December) |
| Jun 16 |
Collaborative Game DevelopmentDedric Mauraic - Genius Scripter - is putting the finishing touches to a collaborative game that will be used for Cisco Live!. I am not going to give the details away but let me tell you that in our testing at the Meta Magic Studio, we were laughing and having a great time with the game. I am always impressed when some one is able to execute a non-violent game. And able to execute it in Second Life® with all of its inherent limitations. Stay tuned for more on this…. Photos from our morning testing. That is Cheerie and Dot with me.  Collaborative Game Testing - Meta Magic Studio |
