–J. Curious

I have to be honest, VW world talk annoys me. Because I’ve been involved with them for over 20 yrs. I am pretty sure I have spend more hrs in VR than the total VR group here discussing it and that sad on my part. I beta tested Utima Online played it for 4 yrs and went on to be involved in virtually every major release since then. Second Life, when I learned about it 5 year ago, made me laugh and sick at the same time. Sick because I wanted the investments that I knew were going to nothing. The way corporate fell for it was like I had done when Everquest beta came out. As I read the corps sinking money in it I laughed. And just like we came out of our high so did corporate. The problem is the coke factor wares off and people move on and it becomes harder and harder to get that high again. The only way VRs like WOW and others keep growing is by moving into new markets. The first time experience of a VR is like trying coke for first time its exhilarating! But it doesn’t last. What’s sad is with the amount of money being invested in VR we could have a real global solution for education. You see, VR is putting the horse in front of the cart. Its a great idea, but we need to develop the edu delivery system and content development solution that flattens global education first; and that what EDUIT, inc is working on. Check out CHINA Prospectus http://ow.ly/iOCm. Our solution is very simple and will work great.

The Solution, the name of the system, will be able to deliver the content to any VR system autonomously. It will make VR a true learning environment. Another problem for VWs and learning is the keyboard and until we move away from a keyboard VR isn’t really feasible. The Solution we are working on is a non text solution completely driven by multimedia 3.0 and multitouch technology. You wont need to read or write… perfect even for dyslexics like me and Will Shakespeare.

So please take a break from debating VWs. Spend some time instead talking about eSingularity Initiative to flatten global education and become of it. Help me instead develop the ideas further that will aid us in getting India and China behind it. Become my mentors, advisors and supporters. Don’t get me wrong I love VWs more than anyone, but trust me in that NOW isn’t the time for them. Join the eRevolution http://ow.ly/iOHO Listen to my talks. I’m going to do one on VWs right now and put it for you all.

Respectfulness,

Michael Trout
The eRevolution Dictator
and CEO EDUIT, Inc

Thanks for summarizing everything that we talked about last night! It was a whirlwind, and, as usual, some tweets got missed, so good to have the summary to review. I agree with you that we still, as “learning professionals” have a long way to go to becoming very proficient in using VWs to the best of our ability, as well as showing enterprises the value they gain from a good VW experience. This is an area I am becoming very interested in as a way to expand on what is already happening with eLearning and social learning. It seems like a rather natural next step and one that needs exploration. Will need more clients before I can go to the conference in September, but am very interested in hearing more about this topic in future #lrnchat discussions. It also seems like the kind of topic the Learning Irregulars might take up, if they happen to meet again, online or f2f.