Jacki Morie, a VR pioneer, is looking to hire a developer for a research simulation project that her firm All These Worlds is developing for the Health Sciences Center at Texas A & M, one of the world's top universities. The project in itself seems pretty interesting (more on that below), and it's also noteworthy that a major educational institution has been doing a project like this in Second Life in recent years.
The simulation is set in a warehouse (above) which has a number of hazard signs. "[W]hat they are actually testing is the efficacy of the design of the hazard signage, if one design alerts someone more to a hazardous situation than another," Jacki tells me.
That's why she needs a developer with SL scripting experience: "Every machine has a set of coded functions. Some of the code needs tweaking. And they want 'explosions' if the procedures are done incorrectly, with the functions then reset so participants can try again." Any study with explosions is by definition awesome.
This is a very well-funded project, so the contract pays quite a bit -- details on that and how to apply below:
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Educator: Second Life as a Teaching Tool Would Never Work on "Woke" College Campuses of Today (Comment of the Week)
There's a very interesting reader thread on the recent Electronic Gaming Monthly article on Second Life as told through its old guidebooks. including this thought from "Iggy", who some ten years go, when SL had hundreds of "virtual campuses" owned by real life colleges and universities (up to and including Harvard!) was once among the most passionate educators advocating for the use of Second Life as a teaching tool in colleges:
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Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 at 02:18 PM in Comment of the Week, Education in SL, Sex and Romance, Social Structures, Social Upheaval | Permalink | Comments (5)
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