Why Are US Corporations Now Interested In 3D Virtual Events ?

US Corporations started using traditional online meeting platforms (also considered as Virtual Events platforms, used for webcasting and online conferences) more than 10 years ago. The most popular traditional virtual meetings used are Cisco‘s Webex, Citrix Online’s GotoMeeting, Microsoft‘s Netmeeting and Adobe‘s Adobe Connect.

However, according to analyst firms such as Frost & Sullivan, who predicted this need already a few years ago, corporations have started looking for collaboration platforms which increase productivity, and enable sense of presence. Click on this figure to enlarge.

Why 3D virtual events?

Before the emergence of 3D Virtual Events, each time Corporations needed more sense of presence and more interaction and more humanized meetings, they would go for a face-to-face or in-person events, but now there is a new pardigm that they are discovering and enjoying before paying the cost of in-person events and wasting their employees time in traveling.

As a matter of fact, 3D immersive solutions are filling in the gap by offering an in-between solution, where you can save time and money by keeping it virtual, while increasing engagement and interactivity, thanks to 3D immersion, avatar based platforms.

We see a few reasons why Virtual Events improve the productivity of corporate gatherings:

• 3D Virtual  spaces create a Sense of Presence, and a Feeling of the Space that you don’t have with passive, boring slideshow meetings offered by traditional webex-like platforms
  
• Avatars help visualizing other participants, and lead to more « Human » Interactions, more engaging, more networking among attendees
• Avatars animations (walking, sitting, laser beaming, hand raising,….) and 3D Virtual Spaces lead to stronger Visual Memory of the Meeting
• Games, serious games, and other fun content such as simple ice-breaking actions at the beginning a speech, makes the conference or the training or the kick-off, more engaging, more interactive and more fun
• Importing 3D objects improves communication and collaboration on 3D virtual objects and products particularly efficient for gatherings like small design review meetings for a new product or larger new product launch presentations, or even technical trainings for existing or new products.

In a typical virtual event, such as a virtual conference, a virtual classroom, a corporate training meeting, or a kick-off meeting, you have a much higher level of engagement and interactivity than with traditional platforms. Not only you can see the list of participants as you see in traditional tools, but also you see their avatars movements, walking, sitting, raising hands, their actions on objects, and where they are looking at !!! This last point is essential for an Instructor, a presenter or a teacher to check the level of attention of the audience. Nowadays with traditional platforms, the majority of participants go mute to check emails and they have even other conversations going on, either over the phone or with people in their office. It’s much harder to play these tricks in a 3D virtual event.

Similar notions apply to virtual tradeshows, inside virtual exhibit halls.: Participants can also click on other attendees avatar and engage one-to-one or one-to-many conversations or check their linkedin or facebook or Google+ profiles depending on the social media they used to enter the meeting.

And that’s not all. If the content is king, the context is queen. The choice and the design of the meeting room itself has a huge impact on the gathering. Architects and Interior Designers know what we are talking about: the feeling and the emotions that a space generates in us. Have you ever questioned why corporations have always spent so much time and money in building well designed and greatly architect-ed headquarters, Conference rooms and reception areas? Do you have the same feeling when you walk in an underground dark railway station hallway, compared to when walking in a bright glass bridge with a green landscape around your meeting room? That’s the kind of emotions that environments create in you.

The 3D immersive environment and its design by itself creates feelings in each attendee. Now add the fact that you see another avatar in front of you talking and/or chatting. Is it the same sense of communication compared to trying to visualize someone just by their name, in text, in the lower right corner of the screen?

This is why corporations are looking for more HUMAN Interaction, more ENGAGEMENT and for virtual events which are closer to the in-person events. So that the attendee “FEELS” like he/she is “THERE”, and interacts with the speaker, the presenter, the teacher, the  exhibitors and with other attendees.

Register for one of our upcoming webinars and give it a try, and feel free to react…

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3D-VirtualEvents.com and Events Clique Partner to Serve Event Planners

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Events Clique (EventsClique.com), an online event planning and space planning website and service, who transforms the way events are planned and accelerates the real estate leasing process.

Event planners can now find and plan their face to face or real event venues through EventsClique.com and use Altadyn’s 3D-VirtualEvents.com platform for planning and producing their virtual events. They will even be able to replicate virtually in 3D-VirtualEvents.com the venue that they have customized, based on a real venue, found and worked out in eventsclique.com. This partnership takes the hybrid events solution to a next step.

“This strategic alliance between Altadyn and Events Clique brings a total 3D virtual event solution to the market from the design and planning phases through the event execution phase,” says President of Events Clique, Kristin McClune.

With 3D-VirtualEvents.com now available across the world, corporate event and meeting planners who use eventsclique.com now have a cost-effective and time-saving option when it comes to planning and/or holding events – without participants traveling (they can now attend virtually from their desktop computer in their office) . This applies to sales conferences, to board meetings, corporate trainings and virtual classrooms, holiday parties, new hires on-boarding, trade shows, product launches, and more.
Visit www.eventsclique.com or connect with EventsClique.com on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/eventsclique) or Twitter (@EventsClique).

Discover our New Platform and Win an iPod Nano!

We have an exciting new platform to show you: 3D-VirtualEvents.com. Join us on January 18th, 2012 at 8:30AM PST (11:30 EST, 5:30PM CET) for a virtual conference and see it by yourself, while taking a chance to win an iPod nano.

Among new features, you’ll notice:

• Wizard-driven space creation enables immediately operational conference rooms and exhibition halls setup
• A new navigation model requiring only mouse clicks, making the platform even more accessible to all
• Social media integration enables anyone to sign in with Linkedin, facebook, or Google accounts and view others’ profiles similarly
• In-World video streaming provides a more attractive user experience
• Chat dialog is on a transparent overlay
• Live feeds, rss or tweets can be displayed on in-world screens
• Pre-loadable slides, hand-raise function, better audio quality, improved Mac support, registration module for events, automatic reminders and many more features included.

See you on January 18, at 8:30AM PST (11:30AM EST, 5:30PM CET)

3D-VirtualEvents.com Gamifies Virtual Conferences & Tradeshows Through Engaging 3D Avatar-Based Immersive Spaces

PRESS RELEASE

3D-VirtualEvents.com Gamifies Virtual Conferences & Tradeshows

Through Engaging 3D Avatar-Based Immersive Spaces

ALTADYN® Introduces Patent Pending Technology For 3D Virtual Events, The First Self Service, Instantly Setup Full 3D Immersive Platform For Virtual Events With No Download Required.

January 11^th, 2012 – Irvine, California. – Altadyn announced our new platform today: 3D-VirtualEvents.com. Offered in SaaS mode on the cloud, it has been designed for corporations and event professionals who want to stay away from boring slideshow-driven webcasts, in favor of more engaging and entertaining ways to run virtual events like virtual conferences, virtual trainingVirtual classrooms, virtual tradeshows and other virtual meetings.
 

“Compared to our previous platform, 3D-VirtualEvents.com is much easier to setup, being instantly available by use of our new wizard. The updated user interface allows event attendees to take advantage of the rich and engaging aspect of a 3D avatar based platform without the learning curve which usually goes with it.” declared Darius Lahoutifard, Altadyn’s CEO. “Altadyn’s patent pending technology is based on a disruptive technology that makes high-end 3D immersive spaces for collaboration accessible to users with mainstream computers in enterprise environments. While similar technologies require heavy or proprietary software downloads and installations,3D-VirtualEvents.comruns in current browsers on typical office computers and only requires Java, the largely installed open source component.”

Here are some key elements of Altadyn’s technology included in a small java applet, which loads seamlessly as the user clicks on a hyperlink:

• A fully immersive 3D engine with physics capabilities
• Customized avatars able to walk, sit, talk, raise hands, manipulate objects, point objects or screens with laser pointers, and more
• Desktop sharing and remote control
• Synchronized 3D object manipulation: rotation, translation, scaling. Optimal for product design review, product training, product launch, games, and more
• Integrated Voice/IP
• Integrated instant messaging – moderated, private or public
• Integrated in-world audio and video streaming
• Open architecture enabling users to import 3D objects and 3D spaces from other external 3D formats
• Open API enabling developments in Java, javascript, HTML5

Main applications covered by the new 3D-VirtualEvents.com platform include not only virtual conferences, virtual tradeshows, virtual classrooms, and other corporate gatherings (kick-offs, trainings, on-boarding meetings, etc…) but also eLearning, serious games, collaborative sessions for product design review, product specific trainings, live 3D chats on websites, permanent 3D virtual worlds for communities or 3D spaces on websites for permanent show rooms and exhibition halls.
 
For a limited time, event professionals are offered a $100 credit for their first event, under the FREE TRIAL program available here: http://www.3d-virtualevents.com/. They will also be eligible to win an iPod by attending the initial product launch 3D conference demo on 1/17/2012. Registration is open to all here:

http://www.3d-virtualevents.com/launch-contest/

About Altadyn

Altadyn® is changing the way we meet, learn, teach, collaborate, socialize, market, sell, transact. The company is emerging as the leader in 3D Virtual Events, 3D websites and other live 3D synchronous collaboration such as web conferencing, virtual trade shows, virtual exhibitions, live meetings, virtual classrooms and more. Altadyn’s platforms are the only web 3D platforms which are immersive, interactive, and do not require any download or installation and work with any browser on any computer. Altadyn® is already delivering value to major customers including NDU / FCVW (National Defense University), US-Air Force, Saint-Gobain (NYSE Euronext: SGO), Old Dominion University, Saint Joseph University, Cubic (NYSE: CBC), Aptima, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) , Crawford & Co and more. Altadyn operates globally with offices in Irvine, California, and Paris, France. For more information, visit http://www.altadyn.com/ or contact:
 
Altadyn Corp.  /   e-mail: dl (AT) altadyn.com 
 
ALTADYN, is a registered trademark of ALTADYN Corp. 3D-VirtualEvents.com is a trademark of Altadyn Corp. All other registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Pre-Announcing 3D-VirtualEvents.com

3D-VirtualEvents.com is on the horizon. Focusing on Virtual Conferences and Virtual Tradeshows, this platform promises to stand out as one of the best virtual event solutions offered. The uses and applications are numerous, while still running on Altadyn’s patent-pending download-free and browser-based technology. Visit the coming-soon page here and register to be instantly informed when open.

New Altadyn Corporate Website

We are proud to announce the launch of our new Altadyn corporate website. This is the first of a series of exciting releases we will be sharing in the month to come. Feel free to explore the site and see all of our offerings.

You’ll notice a company website seperate from our products websites:
- 3D-VirtualEvents.com
- 3D-VirtualEmbassy.com
- 3DXplorer.com
- ToonMX.com

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3D-Virtual Embassy

Altadyn is proud to announce the launch of 3D-VirtualEmbassy.com.  In a 3D Virtual Embassy, citizens of the world can congregate together while avoiding the risk of physical occupation or confrontation in some regions of the world, especially when governments are not cooperating. Based on Altadyn® ‘s patent pending technology, 3D-VirtualEmbassy.com offers governments a way to easily and quickly build virtual embassies which go far beyond simple websites or Facebook pages. Beside basic file downloading and application submitting features, the 3D-VirtualEmbassy.com enables conducting interviews, holding meetings, press conferences, and more engaging, while peaceful interactions.

The launch of the new website occurs alongside Hillary Clinton and the US State Department initiating an online virtual embassy in Tehran. Although the US Department of State’s initiative is a great action for peace, communication and transparency, the implementation was simply comprised of only static web pages, a twitter account and a facebook page..

Altadyn utilized the forthcoming 3D-VirtualEvents.com platform to create a 3D Virtual Embassy mockup. The prototype Tehran Embassy has a stunning panorama of the city itself in the background, along with a lobby, meeting rooms, a library/lounge with multimedia facilities, documents and other information, as well as a cultural center with an art gallery with Persian miniatures of famous Iranian artists. Even the signage is in both English and Persian. At the virtual embassy, visitors would be able to interact live with officials, providing a clear advantage over a traditional static web page.

University of Washington Virtual Classroom Case Study

This past month Altadyn was happy to take part in a University of Washington course on virtual worlds with Professor Ran Hinrichs. The class, consisting of over 30 students from all over the world, participated in an exclusive first-look live demo of the brand new 3D-VirtualEvents.com conferencing platform in a virtual classroom setting. The course has been part of a successful certificate program in virtual worlds at UW for several years.

Altadyn CEO Darius Lahoutifard lectured inside a new conference room built in the upcoming new platform, 3D-VirtualEvents.com, giving the students an exclusive look at the unreleased product. His lecture included slides about the evolution of web3D and highlighted some of the exciting features of the new platform, including in-world streaming video, live twitter feed and more. The event proved to be quite successful, as everyone involved was able to have an enriching immersive experience.

After the lecture, the group got together at the lounge bar, for an interesting informal conversation about virtual worlds and it’s applications in a relaxed atmosphere.

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