{"id":4793,"date":"2011-09-01T21:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:00:16","slug":"virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/09\/01\/virtual-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see an increase in 3D Virtual World software being used to replace 2D PowerPoint-based virtual meetings. People loose focus quickly in 2D meetings staring at slides on the screen with a disembodied voice. So more companies are adopting 3D virtual worlds\u2014where the environments look like conference rooms or offices\u2014to avoid the mind numbing presentations. This is basically a replacement strategy of virtual worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theelearningcoach.com\/elearning2-0\/2011-learning-technology-trends\/\">The Learning Coach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see an increase in 3D Virtual World software being used to replace 2D PowerPoint-based virtual meetings. People loose focus quickly in 2D meetings staring at slides on the screen with a disembodied voice. So more companies are adopting 3D virtual worlds\u2014where the environments look like conference rooms or offices\u2014to avoid the mind numbing presentations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[328769,6634],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-emerging-markets-poll-2","tag-virtual-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}