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Northern Michigan University's Speech-Language & Hearing Virtual Clinic is an ambitious, comprehensive project seeking to utilize virtual reality to:
The clinic is located on the Second Earth 7 island (also known as "sim," or simulation) thanks to the generosity of the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
If you have Second Life installed, you can teleport directly to the clinic by clicking this SLURL: Click Here.
Otherwise, the "Demonstration Videos" tab provides the following:
The NMU S-L&H Virtual Clinic has become the hardest, most complicated and ambitious project I have ever undertaken as either a professional or academic. While I've worked on architectural builds in the past, the addition of photorealism provided a new set of challenges. I was also responsible for creating all interactive content on the island--something I've never had to do before. Taking into account learning high-end 3D software on the go, as well as projects that push the functionality of the Second Life platform to the extreme, the project has been both a source of frustration and exhileration. As the general contractor and sole builder, my duties include:
The computer programming for this project is done by Bilo Bellic of Germany. Simon Sugita, from the Netherlands, provided us with his artificial intelligence chat-bot technology. James Zeigler, the Project Director, helped with the ideation of the virtual clinic, oversaw the accuracy of the anatomical models, and provided the questions and answers for the chat-bots. Students from the SL220 Speech and Voice Science class provided the PowerPoint slides located beneath Larynx A.