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The key user and IT oriented OLIVE features are summarized below. Developers and systems integrations should see the integration and customization features available through the Software Development Kit (SDK).
Engaging User Experience
• Lifelike Avatars: Photo-realistic appearance, automated gestures and voice-activated lip synchronization deliver an unparalleled immersive and personalized experience. Our customers' users trust OLIVE because their avatars represent their digital identity.  • High Quality Audio: Clear, crisp, and spatially accurate voice communication supports free flowing conversation. The 3D audio in a typical OLIVE meeting is better than traditional conferencing audio.
• Industry-Specific Content: Pre-developed high-quality 3D content, including avatar clothing and gear, vehicles, meeting/class rooms, buildings, and city and rural scenes.
• Integrated Social Networking: Link private or public personal profiles to OLIVE avatars to build relationships quickly, or embed links within avatars or 3D objects to launch your social networking sites, profiles, blogs, wikis, or content repositories. OLIVE includes web-based modules to help you build communities and facilitate relationships between users.
• Easy-to-Use, Role-Based User Interface: End users learn OLIVE in minutes, thanks to an intuitive, graphical UI. Power users, including instructors or moderators, have access to advanced and role-specific controls.
Collaboration & Training Functionality • Telephony: Increases access to the virtual world by allowing phone-based attendees (those without access to a computer) to hear and be heard in-world.  • Virtual Meeting Reservation System: Provides easy set-up and launch of 3D meetings by selecting attendees, room type and configuration, with email invitations sent to attendees via the user’s native email system. • Document and Application Sharing: Supports drag-and-drop of PowerPoint slides or streaming videos, presentation of desktop desktop application onto in-world screens, and re-use of web-based SCORM content for instructor-led lessons or self-paced learning modes. • Presence and Privacy: Enables users to precisely know who else is present in the environment, or each user to designate their status to others, and to summon colleagues to join you.
• Record and Replay: Conduct a 3D replay from a previous session for participants to be debriefed, or perform an after-action review. Trainees can get real-time feedback from instructors or subject matter experts. Capture best and worst practices as examples for new learners. Enterprise IT Readiness
• Mid-Range PC & Linux Platform Requirements: A scalable, multiprocessing computing architecture based on low cost, commodity PC technology provides broad access, simplified operation and management of large virtual environments. Minimizes network bandwidth requirements to run on DSL or cable model connections. • Firewall and Security Support: Run OLIVE fully behind or through firewalls using a single open port of your choice, configured through OLIVE’s network multiplexer feature. Run SSL encryption if desired for increased security.
• User Authentication: Provide single sign-on for users with integration to authentication systems like LDAP.
• Lotus Sametime™ Plug-in: Through single-click access, Lotus Sametime users can launch OLIVE, see the presence of colleagues, invite other Sametime users to meet immediately “in-world”, or schedule a meeting in OLIVE.
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