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 Today, we announced another step in beefing up our web.alive platform. We're teaming up with Virtual Heroes to create new virtual 'worlds' that enterprises can use for more interactive training and collaboration.
Virtual Heroes is perhaps best known for creating the America's Army Game training platform and HumanSim, a medical training world (check out this ABC News video - it's a great example).
The move of Virtual Worlds from gamer playground to business tool was the main topic of a Virtual Worlds event earlier this week in London. Among the speakers at the event were Mark Kingdon of Linden Lab and John Hengeveld of Intel. Paul McDonagh-Smith of Nortel also spoke at the event. Paul is Notel's director of learning applications, and is heavily involved with Nortel's web.alive virtual collaboration tool. web.alive was unveiled earlier this year as the first project to come out of Nortel's incubation program. The solution is targeted at helping businesses create a "better than reality" collaboration environment that blends 3D graphics with high-definition spatial audio.
A few weeks ago, I did a Q&A with Kieth Weiner right after Nortel announced the acquisition of DiamondWare the 3D audio specialist company he founded. Thanks to a link from John Roese on his blog, today I listened to a nice audio demo of what 3D audio (or spatial audio) can do for a conference call situation. You can listen to the demo below. I highly suggest you use stereo headphones to get the full effect.
New feature for everyone to try out today. I've just enabled the use of polls on the blog, so I figured we'd have some Friday fun using the feature. Based on yesterday's Nortel news, which item was bigger for you? Take the time to let me know what you think, both on the news, and on if you have any suggestions for future polls.
There has been a lot of coverage from our two announcements of the DiamondWare acquisition and our web.alive launch. Here's a quick list of the most interesting reading for you:
And of course if you haven't visited it yet, there is a new website and blog for web.alive here that has some interesting reading.
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 Virtual Worlds are not likely what you think of when someone mentions Nortel. That may change soon. Nortel today unveiled web.alive, a new 3D virtual reality tool targeted at enterprise collaboration.
web.alive is born from Nortel's recently established R&D Incubation Program, and is actually the first project from the Incubation Program to go into the production stage.
 For the third time in three weeks, Nortel has announced an acquisition. The latest was this morning with the acquisition of Mesa, Arizona-based DiamondWare, which specializes in high-definition 3D audio.
What exactly is high-definition 3D audio, you ask? 3D audio (or spatial audio) uses proximity, and is based on enabling the listener to determine the location of the speaker(s). This has various applications, including in a 3D virtual reality environment.
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Today, we announced another step in beefing up our web.alive platform. We're teaming up with Virtual Heroes to create new virtual 'worlds' that enterprises can use for more interactive training and collaboration.