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Daden are creating a virtual scientific map to enable the public to take a 3D journey into UK based science.

As part of this year's British Science Festival hosted at Aston University, Daden are creating an interactive map, available both on the web and within Second Life, of virtual world based scientific research and educational activities at UK universities and research organisations....

.....In order to take part, and have their location listed, UK science projects are invited to visit www.daden.co.uk/bsf/ and complete a short form (ideally by 10th September 2010) giving details about their project, and provide a web and virtual world link. Daden are interested in the use of virtual worlds for not only science research, but also for science outreach and higher education.

Read the full press release here

VOTE FOR DADEN: Daden have been included in a poll of "Great Minds of Birmingham" We'd appreciate it if you would vote for us. Link here: http://bit.ly/9XlYOa

Version 1.2 was released today on the Google Code site. The software (which has been running on Daden's hosted service for a couple of weeks now) offers some significant improvements over 1.1 including:

• Chatbots - you can create chatbot/NPCs from within PIVOTE, so as to populate your exercise with virtual characters
• Shared Media - you can now use the shared media in SL instead of parcel media, increasing flexibility and simplifying set up
• Simpler SL Interface - we have separated out the controller and interface functions in SL, so now most SL exercises just need the simple SL Interface
• Simpler multiple choice questions - you could always do multiple-choice through activity node links, but now you can rapidly create multiple-choice questions to test knowledge without effecting exercise flow

For more information read the release notes or contact us. You can download the code from Google Code.

Daden Limited are planning a series of seminars in the autumn to help organizations understand how virtual worlds and artificial intelligence (virtual characters) can be used for serious business. We would like your input to the content of these seminars and where they are held.

The survey consists of 6 questions and should only take 2 minutes to complete.

To take the survey please click this link.

Daden have released a white paper - Virtual Worlds for training and education.

The paper describes the different ways of using virtual worlds for learning ranging from the most basic Remote Learning level to "Not Possible In Real Life"(NIPRL).

To download a copy of the white paper click here

Daden Limited a virtual worlds solution provider based in Birmingham UK are pleased to announce their move into new physical offices at Faraday Wharf within Birmingham Science Park Aston. For the past five years, Daden staff have worked from home, and for the last two years as virtual tenants at the Serious Games Institute in Coventry. However it is in their virtual offices in Second Life that they meet most of their clients.

Read the whole press release here

Daden has scored a double success by being the only UK company to become a finalist in two categories of the U.S. Federal Government's Virtual World Challenge (FVWC). We entered our PIVOTE and Datascape systems into the Challenge, and have now been invited to the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando Florida at the end of March for the finals.

The Challenge was launched by the U.S. Army Simulation & Training Technology Center, in order to reach a global development community to provide innovative and interactive training and analysis solutions in virtual worlds. The audience includes all United States Government Departments and Agencies, including Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Health and Human Services. Read the full announcement.

Due to our continued expansion Daden moves formally into its new offices in Birmingham Science Park on Monday 1st March. You can find postal address, map and travel details on our new directions page. If ever you're up in Birmingham just give us a call and pop in!

We also have a new office number - +44 (0)121 250 5678. We'll be sending full details out shortly to our contacts to remind them to update their contact lists.

Due to continued expansion we are now looking for 4 new team members covering 3D building, programming (C# and Perl), eLearning design/development/authoring and a production assistant. More details on our jobs page.