Daden Awarded Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider Program Membership For Second Life Projects

May 28, 2009 - PRLog -- Following a thorough application and vetting process, Daden Limited has been accepted into Linden Lab's new Gold Solution Provider Program, designed to identify highly qualified firms that offer services and develop content for enterprises, governments, educational institutions, and individuals in Second Life. Solution Providers applying to the program were evaluated based on client references and a track record of successful projects in Second Life. Daden is one of only a handful of UK companies and 31 companies worldwide to receive this designation.

Daden's Managing Director David Burden attributes their inclusion to Daden's international reputation as a virtual worlds company that provides its clients with solutions that integrate their real life and Second Life presence.

"Our expertise is in integrating virtual worlds, the internet and the real world. Our clients tend to be focussed on the serious aspects of virtual worlds. We listen to their needs and create solutions that are not just empty replicas of their real life buildings but fulfill a specific requirement - be it for training purposes, planning and regeneration or just orientation."

In the last year Daden have created a number of exciting integration, visualisation and training tools for use within Second Life. These include the Daden NavigatorTM (a web browser within Second Life), PIVOTE (Open Source virtual learning authoring system) and displaying Google Maps within the world. Their latest visualisation tool Datascape brings some of these technologies together into a single "war room" which allows users to zoom maps, plot geographic data, view CCTV and webcams, plot 3D data, show slides and objects, view RSS and Twitter feeds, and analyse GPS and earth-sensing data all in a shared immersive environment.

"Each member of the Gold Solution Provider program has been carefully evaluated by Linden Lab, based on client references and a track record of successful projects in Second Life," said Glenn Fisher, Director of Developer Relations at Linden Lab. "Those accepted into the program are particularly good choices for organizations planning immersive work or learning environments in Second Life, and this new program will make it easier than ever for organizations to find especially well-qualified firms among our larger Solution Provider Program of more than 250 companies worldwide."

Daden are working with almost a dozen education and training organisations from the public (HE, FE, Secondary) and private sector (in-house and external) to help them use virtual worlds and characters to deliver a better education and training experience to their students and staff.

David Burden ends "We would like to thank our clients for supporting us and allowing us to create exciting places and systems that serve a real need. We hope to develop even more innovative and sophisticated solutions to clients in the future, and we believe that Second Life will become a key platform for collaboration, visualisation, learning and training in the years to come."

NOTES TO EDITORS:
Second LIfe and Linden Lab are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc

LINKS:

The Daden web site is at www.daden.co.uk

Daden can be visited at any time on the Daden Prime sim in Second Life at  .

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About DADEN
Daden Limited is a virtual worlds agency based in Birmingham, UK. We offer consulting advice, design and build services, and have special expertise in the areas of web and real world integration, and creating interactive virtual personalities.