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NY Law School & There.com Launch State of Play Academy, an Initiative Designed to Develop Education in Virtual Worlds

NY Law School & There.com Launch State of Play Academy, an Initiative Designed to Develop Education in Virtual Worlds

New York Law School and There.com parent company Makena Technologies today announced the formation of the State of Play Academy (SOPA), the first voice-enabled virtual world learning environment and the first project specifically designed to explore strategies for using virtual worlds for distance education. Results of the first 10 classes will be reported at the State of Play / Terra Nova Symposium being held today and tomorrow in New York as part of an ongoing study of virtual world communities.

SOPA offers free online classes where participants are represented by avatars interacting on a virtual campus consisting of a classroom, library, coffeehouse and courtroom in There.com, one of the Internets largest virtual worlds created for online socializing. Instructors and attendees communicate using There.coms real-time multi-person voice and text chat capabilities, including verbal exchanges miced into the site and coordinated with avatars mouth movements to create lifelike online conversations.

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