Target markets for OpenSimulator:
Students, instructors, organizations,
presentations, collaborative meetings
Consideration of potential markets for OpenSimulator and what Opensim needs to penetrate them.
Virtual classroom
Potential market
- Organizations: Schools, companies
- Students: Online, on campus, on virtual campus
- Instructors: On campus or at home
- Presentations: Small discussion groups with interest focus.
- Collaboration: Online work groups
What we need
- Simplified onboarding: Specialized learning limited to user needs.
- Scenegate
- Improved security
- Distance from games and porn
- Resources to make scene creation easy
- Object scripting to differentiate a 3D place from a picture (even a 3D one)
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Advantages of Opensim
Online benefits
- Low cost of space.
- Access from anywhere, any time, no travel.
- Computer support included.
- Suitable for part-time study and study at home.
- Computer-supported instruction
- Scholarly articles for computer-supported instruction
Virtual world benefits
- Simulation of subject-related environment.
- Instructor-controlled environment.
- Social interaction for socially dependent learning.
- Computer-supported collaborative learning (Wikipedia)
- Programmed, interactive environment
- Environment can include a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA).
OpenSimulator benefits
- Low cost
- Save and own your products.
- Run your own copy in-house and on your private network.
- A version on your private network can meet security requirements.
Kitely Organizations benefits
- Benefits to organizations such as schools:
- Complete control of access and user abilities
- Organization identity not connected to host company
- Batch registration matching organization roles
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
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