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System Requirements

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:22:45 +0000

ProtoSphere System Requirements for PC

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.

White Paper: How Virtual Immersive Environments (VIEs) Address Learning Challenges in Life Sciences

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:26:21 +0000

Within the life sciences industry, 3-D live virtual immersive environments address the financial challenges, global distribution of teams, and the human factor by providing learners with the ability to:

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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White Paper: Collaboration Advantages of 3-D Virtual Immersive Environments

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:25:18 +0000

The focus on collaboration is driven by the need to innovate, the need to bring together disparate individuals to solve complex problems, and the need to reach across traditional boundaries to obtain the necessary knowledge.

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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White Paper: Compliant Collaboration & Learning in Virtual Immersive Environments

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:22:49 +0000

The benefits of innovations in the field of life science include longer life expectancies, higher quality of life for millions of individuals and the reduction of fatalities associated with many diseases. Technology innovations associated with 3D virtual immersive learning environments will prove to be just as dramatic. The innovations will decrease the research to market timeline, reduce costs of training for events like trials and help ensure compliance. Just as medical technology has advanced, so has the technology surrounding learning and collaboration.

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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ProtonMedia & Microsoft

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:10:10 +0000

ProtonMedia’s growing portfolio of customers, which include forward-thinking life sciences, energy, hi-tech, and insurance organizations, are adopting Unified Communications (UC) platforms such as Microsoft Lync 2010 to integrate the various communications technologies they’re already using such as IM, web conferencing, and VoIP, in an effort to increase productivity, improve collaboration, and reduce costs. ProtonMedia has partnered with Microsoft to bring this same level of UC technology into ProtoSphere, the market-leading virtual collaboration environment for the high-performance workplace, and the first and only virtual immersive environment to utilize Microsoft UC technologies.

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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Nature Chemistry Commentary: Virtual Conferences Becoming a Reality

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:20:47 +0000

Nature Chemistry covered Merck’s ProtoSphere use in its March 2010 issue. The five-page piece details Merck’s entire experience, from what their collaboration challenges were; to what they used ProtoSphere for; to the training, collaboration, and knowledge management metrics they pulled out from their deployment.

“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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BP Improves Online Collaboration, Reduces Costs With ProtoSphere

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:18:56 +0000

BP holds a three-day global conference annually in London. But economic conditions resulted in travel restrictions and cost containment that sent company officials looking for an alternative.

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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Global 500 Pharmaceutical Company Boosts Retention Of MBA Candidates

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:14:50 +0000

A global pharmaceutical company wanted to improve its recruiting ROI by increasing how long MBA candidates stayed with the company, boosting the number who became company leaders, and creating a more consistent and repeatable onboarding process. Internal research indicated the company could achieve these goals by improving connectedness and collaboration among MBA candidates.

The company believed that these requirements could be met through the use of a 3-D virtual world. One 3-D world platform for business was already being piloted inside the company, ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere. The company worked with ProtonMedia to jointly develop a new 3-D social network, which is now used to manage onboarding, training, meetings, and corporate communications; and foster a stronger sense of community among the company MBA candidates around the world.

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Top Five Global Pharmaceutical Company Conducts Industry’s First Virtual Poster Session In ProtoSphere

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:12:35 +0000

Every year, a top five global pharmaceutical company holds a three-day technology symposium for about 500 of its R&D scientists and vendors. Poster sessions, a traditional pharmaceutical industry approach, drive the event. However, facing six-figure costs and ongoing logistical challenges, several of the company’s employees requested alternatives to the traditional symposium.

The company’s team developed a use case and partnered with ProtonMedia to create the pharmaceutical industry’s first virtual technology symposium. Built in ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere, the project fleshed out the functionality, business value, and strategic potential of virtual poster sessions that accurately replicated the real-world symposium experience.

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Polycom’s Steve Pattison Joins ProtonMedia’s Executive Advisory Board

root — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:05:50 +0000

LANSDALE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ProtonMedia, the developer of the ProtoSphere virtual collaboration environment, today announced that Steve Pattison has joined the company’s Executive Advisory Board. Pattison is the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Polycom.

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

“ProtonMedia has carved a strong position in the unified communications and collaboration space over the past couple of years,” says Pattison. “I believe the company has a clear view of the future of collaboration, team engagement, and productivity, and is making significant inroads in the life sciences and other key industry sectors to demonstrate the value of and need for virtual collaboration technology. I’m looking forward to working with its executives in developing new strategic alliances, partnerships, and other opportunities that will bolster its growth trajectory.”

Pattison has over 10 years of experience in the rich media and enterprise video software and technology industries. He has been responsible for a number of significant partnerships aligning leading vendors in the networking, video conferencing, encoding, and storage industries.

“Steve brings to the table invaluable experience and expertise in business development and strategic alliances within the unified communications space,” says Ron Burns, founder and CEO of ProtonMedia.

Prior to Polycom, Pattison was responsible for business development, corporate development, product management, and product marketing at Accordent Technologies and negotiated Polycom’s recent acquisition of the company. Pattison has held numerous leadership roles in the high-tech industry, including executive positions at Interwoven (acquired by Autonomy) and Documentum (acquired by EMC). He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.