The New VA Health Plan Is Second Life

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 6, 2009 @03:01AM from the not-reincarnation dept.

theodp writes "Remember when Catbert informed Dilbert that the new company health plan is Google? In another case of life imitating Dilbert, combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are being provided with a US Army-sponsored virtual world in Second Life (slideshow) to help deal with their condition. Developed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, it is hoped that the veterans-only virtual world Coming Home and its planned activities will promote conversations that can help reduce PTSD. The Avatar will see you now, Sergeant."

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Re:Why use Linden Labs? by westlake · 2009-09-06 03:56 · Score: 4, Informative

I've been following a lot of similar stories recently and I don't understand why agencies and institutions wouldn't build on an opensource infrastructure that they can control (e.g., something like openlife)
Linden Labs has experience and resources.
Linden Labs clients include:
British Petroleum
Wells Fargo
NOAA
The government of Ontario
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
CIGNA
Kraft
Unilever
Disney
Northrop Grumman
Kelly Services
Cisco
IBM
Intel
Microsoft
Toshiba
British Telecom
Nokia
Second Life Work
Openlife is in beta and looks it.