Want to Echo Karl’s thanks for your contribution to the book, but more importantly the contribution that Thinkbalk brings to the space. Your measured and analytical approach to helping us all understand what to expect in the coming year was right on in my opinion.

To Jane’s point, in setting out to write this book Karl and I deliberately chose to focus on three things: (1) Describing VIEs and articulating their potential value for the enterprise and the learning function, (2) Providing examples in use by early adopters to legitimize the value propositions of the technology to the enterprise, (3) Providing a robust set of change management considerations and focused design approach for those who choose to embark on a VIE journey.

Our hope is that this book, along with the Wiki we have created, will become a go-to source for desision-makers and designers alike!

Thanks for being part of the tour and look forward to seeing you next week in Philly!

First of all, I’d like to thank you for the wonderful contribution to the book. Your ideas and insights into implementing 3D virtual immersive environments (VIEs) is well written and provides good, solid advice for making VIEs work within a corporate or academic environment. It was a great addition to the chapter about VIE implementation.

As Jane pointed out, in terms of scoping a chapter out about implementation, we wanted to discuss the implementation of VIEs with a lot of coverage because many times authors assume that the technology is already in place and ready to go but a huge hurdle is the implementation process. We know that VIEs most often start with a small pilot group and that the opinions and ideas of the pilot participants can have far reaching impact on the adoption of the VIE so we wanted to pay special attention pilot group selections.

We are also excited to see your work in terms of chronicling virtual immersive environments and I think your immersive trends are right on the money. Tony and I are hoping that the release of the book will accelerate your three year time line predication and help speed along the adoption of this technology to solve real business and academic issues.

Time will tell:)