OUR VISION

We have just pubblished our new website, with new graphics and structure. The content has been reorganized for a better understanding of our services and solutions. The solutions pages have been re-designed to give readers a quick outlook of our solutions, with videos and demos.
We have added a new Forum and Community section, where users can subscribe, post topics and receive answers to questions about web3D interactive simulations and innovative technologies.
Please visit our new website here: www.isnvirtualworlds.com

Blue Mars™ and the folk at Avatar Reality have recently announced their first application of Blue Mars for iPad™. This opens a new range of possibilities in the field of web 3D and offer users the opportunity to access virtual training and collaboration spaces from their iPad.
This is something truly innovative, especially thinking of the contraints and weight of web 3D applications on devices.
Up until 2 years ago, accessing a virtual world or a web 3D interactive application was difficult in most cases, people’s computers were still slow and bandwith was limiting. Nowadays the possibility of accessing a virtual world via a mobile tablet is a real brakethrough. Companies will have to begin understanding the true potential behind interactive 3D environments and begin implementing such applications within their IT infrastructure. In the difficult economic environment created by the crisis, investing in innovaton can sometimes be very hard, but it remains a vital asset for companies’ growth. Connecting people and training them with the most efficient tools is a fundamental part of building a successfull team.
For more info on our collaboration and training solutions in 3D, please CLICK HERE.

On the 20th of july 2010, ISN Virtual Worlds presented its solutions for the fashion industry at the IBM Forum in Milan, during an event for the fashion industry organized by IBM and the partners of the Fashion Alliance. ISN Virtual Worlds is in fact part of the Fashion Alliance by IBM, an Italian project promoted by IBM to offer innovative solutions for the fashion industry, through putting together selected partners to match the market needs with cutting edge solutions.
The Fashion Alliance is an initiative by IBM Italy and is formed by companies offering innovative solutions for fashion retail and new concept intelligent stores. These include interactive technologies for shops and virtual and augmented reality installations to enhance the shopping experience.
ISN Virtual Worlds, within the Fashion Alliance, provides solutions for online community management, virtual worlds, avatar and virtual assistants with artificial intelligence, 3D virtual shopping experiences and 3D simulation and training environments for company collaboration and internal knowledge transfer.

3D virtual meeting spaces and virtual workspaces are the most innovative way to meet, work and interact online with others. 3D virtual spaces or virtual worlds, are ideal communication platforms which allow real time simulations and interaction among users. We are used to keep in touch through e-mails, blogs and social networks, but what a virtual 3D space offers is a synchronous interaction between people, in a dynamic environment that can be anything fantasy suggests. A virtual world is a space not only to communicate, but also to share content and media, such as videos or images. For example users can have a virtual room with a slide projector where they can meet and watch and comment together any media content projected on a screen seen by all people present at the same time. On the other hand a user could organize a presentation of a business idea or his company to share with colleagues. Moreover, Web 3D environments are ideal for simulation and prototyping, as well as collaborative design. These applications make the best use of this new powerful technology. Learning through simulation has proven to be an efficient mean for training emplyees, managers and workers, on best practices or risk management. To read more about virtual worlds technologies applications, please see our Solutions section in our website.

At ISN Virtual Worlds we believe that Digital AVATARS and Web 3D virtual environments are the future interface for our everyday use of computer systems, both at home and work.
In the last 5 years the word “AVATAR” has become known to everyone, through web social networks and virtual worlds, but also in the massive media arena, such as the movie industry. We believe there’s a lot more coming behind our AVATARS and it is what will happen to the evolution of our Digital IDs on the Internet, whether it is a web or grid (web 3D) environment.
The first hints that the web and the desktop itself would go 3D came also from some Operating Systems such as Linux, with the multi-cube cube desktop, Mac Os with 3D menus and Windows Vista, with the semi-3D Aero interface. With the raise of Virtual Worlds, 3D environments had their true moment of connection with the web. As the web goes 3D, the AVATAR becomes more and more important to represent us on the web in 3D environments. So, as a natural evolution, it is assumable that the graphic representation of ourselves on web, our AVATAR, and our digital IDs, in terms of security keys to access web services, will eventually merge into a unique user identification interface, made of an alphanumeric key or ID and a visual representation as an AVATAR.
As Virtual Reality enters our homes and finds more and more business applications, our AVATARS will become increasingly important in our everyday life. It will be through our AVATARS that we will access tools and application and simulation environments. If the natural evolution of digital work environments is in 3D, then our AVATARS are the interfaces between us and our future interaction environments.

ISN Virtual Worlds has been working intensively on efficient implementation of Intelligent AVATARS for training, marketing and customer care applications.
The most interesting results obtained in AVATARS applications are the ones enhanced with an atificial intelligence module. The AI modules developed by ISN for our AVATARS can be easily integrated with any existing knowledge base. By linking a company’s knowledge structured repository to the AI module of our AVATARS, the artificial agents are able to interact with people and interpret their actions or determine the depth of the information required by a given user. This includes managing access priviledges and recognising different users, to guide them to the relevant information they need. Our intelligent AVATARS can be integrated in different platoforms, including online 3D virtual worlds, but they can also be integrated in various appliances, such as ATM machines or other outdoor interactive displays.
In marketIng applications our AI AVATARS can be powerful assistants for customer care and for guiding customers through the purchasing process, while highlighting special offers and monitoring the users’ reactions or preferences and tastes.
Our Atificially Intelligent AVATARS have a vaste range of applications, they are easy to implement and permit a drastic cost reduction, especially in customer care applications, infomation management and service management.
For more information on our AI AVATAR products and services, please see the solution’s section of our website: AI AVATAR.

Can you envision a greener society, with different needs and goals from the current one? Can you conceive of a sustainable and functioning economic system without the dramatic impact on the planet? Can you imagine a truly participatory governance system?

In a world where population increases at fast pace and resources are lacking, being able to elaborate large amounts of data and simulate conditions, becomes increasingly important for our society.

Online immersive collaborative environments make better living conditions, less pollution and more free time to spend with People.

Crowd sourcing will be future of thinking, acting and planning.

Look at the bigger picture.

All these thoughts are imagined by People and people will make them happen. One day.

If you are not thinking these thoughts, you are not listening to what is really happening.

“Because looking across the landscape of deep global recession, environmental crisis, and ongoing technological transformation, it is clear that we are at the beginning of a large-scale organizational transformation that will impact everything we do—from how we organize production to how we grow our food to how we govern ourselves.”

This is the time to really think of how to be a better part of this planet and begin thinking of technology as the primary mean for reaching this goal and for a better living.

As the founder of ISN Virtual Worlds, I guess I am going to write this first post in our new company blog.

First let me spend a few words explaining why we started this blog. The answer is mainly to inform about the fast development of the technologies we work with and the availabily of new business solutions implemented by our company.

There are various blogs and news sources on Virtual Worlds and Web 3D, our intention here is not to give general news about the virtual worlds and Web 3D market, but to give visibility to our main use cases with virtual worlds and Web 3D technologies and how market innovations in our sector help us develop new solutions for our clients.

The team behind this blog is made of young professionals in the virtual worlds and Web 3D  sector, working in our company: project managers, marketing managers, interaction and strategic designers, IT managers and programmers.

We launched this blog at the end 2009 for a specific reason. The upcoming 2010 will be an important year of consolidation for virtual worlds and web 3D. After this long period of deep crisis, companies are raising their heads and we can see the first serious investments in terms of B2B applications of virtual worlds and web 3D.

As we previewed since 2007, the main applications of virtual worlds and web 3D technologies are for online collaboration and meeting and distance learning through 3D simulations. On the other hand, kids and teens 3D social networks and virtual worlds are booming and the virtual goods market is growing rapidly, especially for this target range.

Our role this year will see us implementing business solutions, through the customization of our partner’s platforms, such as the SL Grid of Linden Lab and Blue Mars of Avatar Reality. While on one hand ISN Virtual Worlds will always keep its community active and invest in the B2C side of our business and through its Virtual Italian Community in Second Life, the larger involvement of the company for 2010 will be around virtual learning projects and interactive simulations for training purposes.

3D online shopping is another application of the technolgies ISN Virtual Worlds develops. We are now able to bring the atmosphere of a 3D interactive space into a website, or create an indipendent 3D environment to recreate any condition and interaction.

For 2010 we also foresee an increase of the use our AI Avatars, artificially intelligent agents for online customer care and call centers. These versatile characters, based on the Avatar interface, can be adapted to handle various functions and they can refer for their intelligence module, to any existing knowledge base.

Performance, efficient tools, cost saving environments and green workplaces are the key words any company should keep in mind for 2010, as the new face of our online identities is taking shape around our Avatars.

I hope you will find this blog useful. Enjoy reading!

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ISN BLOG! A place to share news and visions about the development and the future of virtual worlds and to create a dialogue among those who think, imagine, study, work and experience 3d virtual worlds, online platforms, avatar realities, immersive environments, virtual simulations… and all the crazy things we work on everyday at ISN Virtual Worlds.