ProtoSphere is a radically engaging technology that brings Microsoft Lync, SharePoint and Office 365 to life. ProtoSphere enables organizations to bring the right people and the right information together instantly, to increase the speed of knowledge transfer.

You can now build persistent collaboration spaces on top of your unified communications investment. “For years organizations have put hardware-based conference call end-points into rooms where we have made our calls,” says Ron Burns, CEO of ProtonMedia. “We have extended this notion to make the virtual room the call.”

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• Deeper integration with Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) offerings – Lync Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010. ProtoSphere 2.0 features Lync presence extending throughout the virtual immersive environment. This includes contact cards, voice conferencing, text messaging, enterprise-wide IM integration, application sharing, and the ability to invite individuals to join you directly in ProtoSphere with just a single click. ProtoSphere 2.0 also has compatibility with Microsoft Office Communicator.

• Enhanced integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. ProtoSphere 2.0 includes integration with enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployments for native content storage and full read/write access to document libraries. SharePoint enterprise social networking via MySite profiles can be tied to each collaborator’s avatar in a ProtoSphere immersive engagement.

• Enhanced Media Boards. New multi-content media boards within the immersive environment encourage dynamic presentations of live and stored content from multiple-sources, simultaneously, each with its own information format. All media boards can be co-viewed and discussed interactively by collaborators in a virtual social engagement. Media boards can be used to post and update content for brainstorming, forecasting, onboarding, business strategy, product development, and focus-group collaborations. Supported formats include popular Microsoft Office file-types used by PowerPoint, Word and Excel, text and image content, broadcast or stored video feeds, Adobe .pdf and Adobe Flash interactive, and any application that can run on the desktop.

• Build Your Own World. Administrators and virtual session organizers can now choose their own immersive rooms and spaces and monitor permission and access to meet their specific needs on demand. This provides the ability to select from a wide range of virtual room sizes, layouts, styles, and the number and arrangement of media boards, note boards, and SharePoint boards.

• Greater Moderator Controls. Moderators now have the ability to lock rooms, restricting access when meetings are in progress, and lock content within a location. Moderators can also proactively send individuals to specific locations enabling breakout meetings for corporate learning/training sessions.

• An Updated UI. ProtoSphere’s new application interface focuses on the end user, removing any unnecessary clutter and providing the most immersive experience possible. A new action bar provides contextual navigation elements when needed without taking up valuable real-estate on the interface. And existing Microsoft Lync users will find familiar interface elements of that platform.

• Usage Reporting and Monitoring. ProtoSphere administrators are provided the ability to run usage reports anytime they require from a simple-to-use web interface. This enables them to track the amount of time spent in different locations and overall product usage.

• Secure Authentication with Federated Services. All authentication in ProtoSphere is now accomplished via a federated relationship with a trusted identity provider. This allows users access into ProtoSphere without the need to create additional accounts, and frees IT and network administrators from the burden of managing a separate user store.

“ProtoSphere 2.0 has been a significant undertaking for ProtonMedia, and I could not be prouder of what our team has accomplished with this release,” says Ron Burns, CEO of ProtonMedia. “We have believed for some time that meetings alone are not real collaboration. ProtoSphere 2.0 is an extraordinary combination of a 3D immersive environment, a deep unified communications platform, the power of social networking, and the functionality of a next generation e-learning platform, all delivered in a cost-effective cloud offering. This holistic blend of content with context will bring new levels of efficiency and creativity to knowledge-focused industries.”

As a member of ProtonMedia’s Executive Advisory Board, O’Driscoll joins executives from Microsoft and Polycom in providing the company’s management team with expertise and counsel on industry partnerships, business development, and overall corporate strategy.

“I have spent much of my career working and researching the areas of organizational learning, knowledge management, change management, business strategy, technology disruption and corporate innovation,” says O’Driscoll. “ProtonMedia is uniquely positioned as a key driver of ROI for these business sectors. Through the marketing and development of its Protosphere immersive social learning and collaboration cloud environment, ProtonMedia has created the need for virtual collaboration technology in the enterprise and I’m looking forward to help shape such a forward-thinking organization.”

O’Driscoll is an accomplished author and has been featured in top publications such as Management Information Sciences Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Performance Improvement Quarterly and the Journal of Product and Innovation Management. O’Driscoll is also the author of “Achieving Desired Business Performance,” a comprehensive study of the application of Human Performance Technology and “Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration,” which examines the impact of the emerging immersive Internet on organizational human capital practices.

“I’ve worked with Dr. O’Driscoll for a number of years and have followed his thought leadership for even longer,” says Ron Burns, CEO of ProtonMedia. “I’m extremely honored to have him sit on our advisory board and bring his innovative thinking to our company. He provides a unique view on the market and the needs of enterprise organizations and will be invaluable to the future success and growth of the company.

DISPLAY RESOLUTION

• Minimum Required: Super VGA 1024 x 590
• Recommended: Super VGA 1080×720 or higher

OPERATING SYSTEM

• Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit
• Windows Vista™ 32-bit (RTM) operating system
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 3
• Microsoft .Net Framework version 1.1

COMPUTER/PROCESSOR

• 2.4ghz or higher processor, Intel Pentium compatible
• Windows Experience Index of 3.5 or greater

MEMORY

• At least 1 GB RAM when running Windows XP
• At least 2 GB RAM when running Windows 7

STORAGE

• At least 400mb of free disk space

VIDEO MEMORY

• 3D-capable video card with minimum of 256MB (512MB recommended) of Video RAM and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.01c application programming interface. Integrated video cards are not recommended.

TELEPHONY

• Microphone and speakers, USB headset with microphone, or equivalent device

BANDWIDTH

• 256 kbit/s (minimum)
• 768 kbit/s or greater (recommended)

SECURITY

• Administrator privileges, or, in Windows Vista® Standard User Mode, administrator credentials. Super-user privileges needed during Install or Patch Update only.

BROWSERS

• Internet Explorer 7, 8

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Microsoft® Office PowerPoint is required for uploading files to multi-slide presentation boards
• Flash 9.0.115.0 or higher for the play back of videos and SWF content

ProtosPhere System Requirements for Mac

DISPLAY RESOLUTION

• Minimum Required: 1024×590

OPERATING SYSTEM

• Snow Leopard 10.6.3 or newer
• Leopard 10.5.8 or newer

PROCESSOR

• Intel Core Duo.
• PowerPC is not supported.

MEMORY

• At least 2 GB RAM

STORAGE

• At least 600mb of free disk space

VIDEO MEMORY

• 3D-capable dedicated ATI or Nvidia graphics card video card with minimum 256MB of Video RAM. Integrated video cards are not supported, specifically the Intel HD3000 found in the MacBook Air and the latest MacBook Pro 13’s.

TELEPHONY

• Microphone and speakers, USB headset with microphone, or equivalent device

BANDWIDTH

• 256 kbit/s (minimum)
• 768 kbit/s or greater (recommended)

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Microsoft® Office PowerPoint 2011 is required for uploading files to multi-slide presentation boards
• Flash 9.0.115.0 or higher for the play back of videos and SWF content
• Running ProtoSphere on Mac OS X requires Apple’s X11 environment.
  • To run ProtoSphere on OSX Leopard you need to install the latest version of X11, available via the XQuartz project site here:http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases
  • OSX SnowLeopard ships with a version of X11 that ProtoSphere should run fine with, however if you are experiencing any issues, we recommend that you install the latest version as mentioned above.

• Have a sense of presence and immediacy with other people in learning environments.
• Take part in dialogue using both voice and engaging nonverbal communications.
• Contextualize learning content within authentic real-world environments, augmented environments, and improbable environments, which go beyond the bounds of possibility.
• Save time away from the actual work environment.

This paper will review some of the unique attributes provided by 3-D live VIEs. In addition, this paper will explore how VIEs have been used in the past, as well as the potential for how VIEs can be used in the future to support life sciences learning applications.

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This white paper explores the elements of successful collaboration and describes how those elements are brought together in 3-D virtual immersive environments (3-D VIEs). The attributes and affordances of 3-D VIEs accelerate the collaboration process and provide those involved with the tools, recourses, and environment to foster collaboration and allow individuals to collectively apply their intellect.

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The creation of Title 21 CFR Part 11 compliant Learning Management Systems (LMS) have revolutionized how training in the life science industry is distributed and tracked. The development of instructionally sound, best of breed online course content has created e-learning modules which are used for training by FDA auditors, compliance officers and others, whenever they have Internet access. Now, the combination of those two innovations, with the three-dimensional virtual immersive environment (VIE) provide opportunities to have targeted training programs and meetings across distance in an interactive, compliant environment that allows the sharing of knowledge in a realistic, more personal way. The use of three-dimensional virtual environments for compliance training is the next logical evolution and extension of existing e-learning technologies and training—a convergence of 2D virtual classrooms, social media, Web 2.0 and three-dimensional graphics. It may seem like science fiction, but today 3D virtual immersive environments are the new method of working and collaborating in the life science industry.

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About Protosphere

ProtoSphere’s innovative environment has the unique ability to virtually bring together the people within an enterprise – anywhere and anytime, with their data – in all forms – including application content, spreadsheets, documents, images, presentations, web content, etc. to enable optimal business decisions, all while helping to reduce travel costs.

ProtonMedia’s customers are using ProtoSphere’s virtual immersive environment to:

• Conduct live events for sales training, product knowledge transfer, and key opinion leader surveys
• Hold externally facing customer engagements for continuing medical education and professional knowledge sharing
• Conduct new employee orientation and onboarding
• Roll out cultural awareness initiatives
• Improve leadership development
• Facilitate virtual poster sessions for R&D engagements
• Provide collaboration spaces for product development teams

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“Traditional scientific conferences can be costly and time-consuming, and certainly aren’t ‘green’, with participants travelling long distances to attend. Are there advantages to meetings held in the virtual world, and can they really offer equally satisfying – or even better – experiences compared with the real world?”

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The company tested 15 different virtual meeting and teaming platforms in an effort to find a cost-effective alternative to the real-world event. ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere, a state-of-the-art virtual collaboration platform for businesses, was ultimately selected for the project.

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