Hospital Takes Its Grand Opening To Second Life
Virtual visitors to the Palomar West Medical Campus can tour the facilities and see some of the amenities of the $810 million, real-life publicly financed hospital in San Diego.
A new state-of-the art medical center due to open in San Diego in 2011 had its virtual grand opening three years early on the Internet-based Second Life.Palomar Pomerado Health and its technology partner Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO) on Monday cut the ribbon on Second Life for the simulated version of the real-life Palomar West Medical Campus, which is under construction and isn’t slated to open for about three years (information weekly).
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We’ve been talking in class about the possibilities of Second Life and I think this is an excellent use of Second Life. The hospital is years away from being completed but the public can get a few of what the future site will look like and how certain parts of the hospital might interact/work
mike
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