ProtoSphere

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Apr 162007
 

Via Tom Crawford comes a detailed look at ProtoSphere, a virtual world aimed at companies and educational institutions. A quick peruse of their website shows that they’ve specifically created it to run as an all-in-one solution, with social networking, simulation capabilities, VOIP, ability to integrate course modules, blogs, wikis, and so on. It looks rather robust.

  4 Responses to “ProtoSphere”

  1. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) says:
    April 16, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    really built a pretty awesome platform here. Don’t get hung up looking at the 3D virtual world – that’s icing – look at what kind of social networking and workflow process support tools are built into it. Geez, Tom Crawford blogged about it and even Raph Koster picked up on it. NexLearn: This one and the next fall into the category of “I like them because they are making it easier for people to do interesting things for learning.” Understand that this in no way implies that people will not take these tools

  2. thcrawford says:
    April 23, 2007 at 4:30 am

    About 7 days ago, I wrote a post about ProtonMedia’s Protosphere. It generated a lot of interest and, I’m humbled to say, even got picked up by gaming guru Raph Koster. One of the more interesting outcomes was a tie to the universe outside learning. Sven (csven) Johnson added an interesting point to the virtual world discussion. To be really effective for business uses (just as much for fun), virtual worlds must

  3. External News says:
    April 16, 2007 at 3:30 pm

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  4. raphkoster_rss: ProtoSphere says:
    April 16, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    […] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RaphsWebsite/~3/109537117/https://www.raphkoster.com/2007/04/16/protosphere/Via Tom Crawford comes a detailed look at ProtoSphere, a virtual world aimed at companies and educational institutions. A quick peruse of their website shows that they’ve specifically created it to run as an all-in-one solution, with social networking, simulation capabilities, VOIP, ability to integrate course modules, blogs, wikis, and so on. It looks rather robust. (Post a new comment) […]

  5. reBang weblog says:
    April 19, 2007 at 10:19 am

    ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere…

    Getting caught up, I found an entry on Raph Koster’s blog (Link) of interest. In it, he refers to a review by Tom Crawford (Link) for an apparently new entry into the virtual world platform race: ProtonMedia’s “ProtoSphere” (Li…

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