Creating Engagement in Virtual Meetings and Distance Training
The importance of engagement; Factors that create it and environments that foster it
Learning Objectives
- What is engagement?
- Why is engagement important?
- What are the factors that foster engagement?
- How effective are the various distance meeting modalities in their ability to create engagement?
- How efficiently do the various distance meeting modalities create engagement when other important factors are considered?
- Why is 3D immersion a modality that should be seriously considered?
Functionality Requirements for the Successful use of 3D Environments
Key Learnings from Pilot Projects Utilizing Immersive 3D Platforms and Technology for Applications Involving Synchronous Training and Collaboration
Learning Objectives
- What are the most common technical problems and obstacles reported by those utilizing 3D virtual environments and how are 3D platform vendors innovating today to address the issues?
- What technical capabilities are considered most essential for conducting consistently successful virtual meetings?
- How important is granular individual VoIP control, graphical difelity and realism to creating immersive 3D environments?
- What are the benefits and drawbacks of the various technical approaches vendors use to integrate content into 3D virtual environments?
- What are the most common constraints presented by firewalls, interface designs and other obstacles to the adoption of 3D technologies today?
The Productive and Counter Productive Use of Gesture Archetypes in Human and Avatar Communication
The Perceived Meanings of Various Types of Conscious and Subconscious Gesturing
Learning Objectives
- Why is gesturing such an important part of human communications?
- What are the core cross-cultural gesture archetypes and what do they mean?
- How does subconscious gesturing often reveal a speaker's true meaning?
- How is gesturing tied to believability?
VenueGen Security and Reliability Overview *Available by special permission
How VenueGen's architecture insures access, privacy and scalability
Learning Objectives
- What security models are used?
- What forms of authentication and encryption are used?
- How is content secured?
- How is VoIP and Chat secured?
- What is instancing and how does it relate to scalability?