Companies such as Sodexo, Marriott, Mayo Clinic, IBM, PwC and Autodesk have created 3D Virtual Learning Environments. The benefits companies receive by implementing 3D virtual onboarding programs are:

• New hires quickly, effectively and confidently assimilate to your company's culture, strategy and values.
• Your company will achieve significant cost-savings by:
  • Reducing down time and cost due to employees traveling to off-site training centers.
  • Reducing cultural, multigenerational, employee disability and time-zone issues - Global access and participation 24/7, Voice Over IP (VOIP), online chat & presentations, easy access to training documentation and interpreters can be provided if desired/requires
• Offers an effective coaching and mentoring to new employees - helps them gain a better understanding of:
  • Company policies and procedures
  • Job duties and responsibilities

8Waves International takes you beyond the Real-World" and into the "Metaverse". Immersive 3D virtual environments are perfect for prototyping, virtual meeting space, online training/onboarding, product displays?

Impress your clients and colleagues with your new virtual edge!

Imagine recruits from around the globe arriving on a lush campus, walking through the doors of your company/school's Virtual Onboarding Center. A bright, lively, well-designed complex full of displays, interactive games, team calendars, project information, meeting rooms, libraries, auditorium, labs and most importantly, team members and staff.

A small team of recruits discuss and play with models of products floating in the air while another asks HR staff questions about procedures. As recruits explore the Center's interactive games and displays together, they are immersed in your company/school's cultures and values while bonding with their teams. New employees can call your staff on video phones for support. New employees quickly become excited, confident team members and build rapport with team managers. Onboarding has begun?

• 250+ colleges/universities in Second Life^TM
• Virtual World demographics: tech savvy, internationally-based, college grads
• Manpower, IBM and others recruit, onboard and manage HR using Second Life^TM.

A Conference Center can be designed as a venue to facilitate virtual presentations and large meetings. Your company/school will save money on travel costs while providing your employees/students with the ability to virtually attend. Never miss a meeting, class or seminar. Dynamic PowerPoint demonstrations, RSS feeds, website integration, question handling, crowd control and more! 8Waves offers each presenter easy to use presentation controls. Sequence slides with a click of a button. Presentation documentation can be shared with attendees.

A Training Center can be designed as a venue to provide virtual training. Your company/school will save money on travel costs while providing expert training to your employees, customers or students. Virtual training programs may consist of; computer certification programs, software systems, new employee orientation, refresher training?

Based on IBM findings using Virtual Onboarding. Retention rates of complex subjects:

• Lecture-based instruction: 5% - 10%
• Discussion-based activities: 40% - 50%
• Simulation with avatars (virtual world): 70 - 90%

Vendors can participate and conduct Real-life Business and financial transactions in a virtual-life Environment.

Vendor showcase booths can be created as a venue to showcase products and services.

A Library can be established as a venue to provide a place to access new reading material such as: white papers, books and magazines right at your fingertips!

Books can be copied for transport and protected through encryption!

Perfect for book clubs, social networking groups, discussion groups or personal reading. Books, magazines, white papers, newsletters, periodicals and any other printed source can be distributed to your groups. 8Waves can interface with any website making it as easy as the click of a button to purchase books within the immersive environment directly from online bookstores such as Amazon.com, Chegg.com, Bigwords.com, AbeBooks.com, DealOz.com?

Boardrooms can be established as a venue to provide a virtual meeting place. Your company will save money on travel costs while providing a mechanism for your teams to meet. As many companies have national and global representation a boardroom makes it easy for you to meet in a multi-dimensional location.

Meet with co-workers within a secured access and privacy setting. Set up may contain video, PowerPoint, podcasting and typed chat and recordings.

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