Federal Virtual World Challenge Finalists

Several months ago, RDECOM issued the “Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge”, challenging the public and contractors to develop innovative virtual world tools to aid in research, education, and collaboration.  Now they’ve narrowed down the submissions to a handful of entries in each of 4 areas: Collaboration, Skill Buildings, Instruction, and Visualization.  You can hit their website for links to each of the websites accompanying the entry for more information.

I find it impressive how many entries are based on SecondLife.  Of the 4 Visualization entires, all are in SecondLife.  Several of the entries we have commented on before (like DataScape from Daden), but all are exemplary uses of Virtual Worlds.

Congratulations to all of the finalists, and a special congratulations to Linden Labs!

Federal Virtual World Challenge Reviews and Evaluations.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .