OLIVE - On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment

Overview

Cost savings, efficiency and effectiveness drive the shift to virtual worlds

Dispersed global operations, soaring travel costs, changing threats, competitive environments, and the demand for faster, real-time decision-making are driving government organizations, academia, and corporations to identify new ways to collaborate. train, rehearse, and operate. Virtual worlds provide a flexible, cost-effective and efficient medium to meet these challenges by enabling distributed users to connect in the virtual world just as they would in the real world.

OLIVE powers enterprise-grade, private virtual worlds with life-like avatars and custom terrain

SAIC's OLIVE is a powerful, dynamic software platform that enables customers to deploy their own persistent and secure three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds where users can train, collaborate and rehearse using life-like human avatars in custom terrain over computer networks. OLIVE provides a video game-like 3-D user interface with access to a variety of functionality and rich media. OLIVE-based virtual worlds bring together physical presence, action, voice, data, and media in a realistic, context-specific simulated environment that can run in your IT environment. Visit the Customers and Videos page to see OLIVE in action.

OLIVE 3.0

SAIC's version 3.0 is introducing a new standard for virtual reality and human interaction on enterprise-grade virtual world (VW) platforms today. The completely redesigned OLIVE 3.0 platform and software system now runs on the Web and in the cloud, giving customers the freedom to work in the VW 24/7/365. Download Highlights of OLIVE 3.0.

OLIVE virtual training and practice helps prevent real-life errors

It's been said that "life's best lessons are learned from our mistakes." OLIVE's private, virtual worlds allow your organization to practice, rehearse, and operate in safe, realistic environments that replicate the real ones in your world. This enables organizations to learn from mistakes in the security and safety of the virtual world, so they can avoid them in the real one.

OLIVE virtual worlds delivers results and return on investment (ROI)

OLIVE can bring together hundreds of distributed employees across the globe in one virtual world, reducing travel, meeting, training, and rehearsal costs. OLIVE delivers an immersive user experience superior to audio and web conferencing systems without the cost of specialized and location-based equipment associated with telepresence solutions. OLIVE can also strengthen personnel learning and knowledge retention through its robust record and replay features. OLIVE virtual world technology can improve results, reduce costs, and enhance individual performance — all of which support your ROI. See our Comparison of OLIVE versus Conventional Communication Technologies.

OLIVE enables secure environments for government, industry and academia

Today OLIVE supports virtual world implementations in healthcare, defense, government, emergency response, disaster preparedness, energy, transportation, retail, and higher education. We provide tailored solutions based on industry- and customer-specific needs. These solutions meet both enterprise IT security and privacy requirements, and run on today's computing platforms. Check out our Industries for more information.

OLIVE provides flexible license pricing or hosting services

SAIC gives customers a choice of license pricing models, a perpetual license and/or new hosting services for its OLIVE virtual software platform. The OLIVE pricing model and new perpetual license is structured specifically for government and commercial customers seeking to test and develop persistent, secure virtual worlds behind firewalls for collaboration, training, rehearsal, meeting, planning, and operation needs.

The hosting service provides commercial, education and government organizations with a quick, easy, and cost-effective tool to collaborate, meet, train and rehearse in virtual worlds without having to engage IT departments in extensive development, project startup and maintenance. SAIC continues to offer behind-the-firewall solutions using OLIVE's persistent, secure, private virtual world.

For commercial and international pricing, contact oliveinfo@saic.com.

Customers and teammates choose OLIVE for their virtual worlds

Customers select OLIVE because of its discriminating technology and enterprise-grade capability to support the development of secure virtual worlds. Our customer success stories reinforce the confidence our clients have in OLIVE as their trusted business associate in building and deploying virtual worlds that are persistent, private and business-ready. Companies choose to work closely with OLIVE because we support the importance of and access to a group of robust teammates that can support OLIVE virtual world implementations. OLIVE, like SAIC, promotes non-proprietary, open interfaces, and is a leader in driving interoperability standards.

OLIVE provides expert virtual world development and implementation support

OLIVE invests heavily in customer support, training, and documentation services to provide customers and teammates with the tools to achieve success. We actively develop and maintain a product road map based on customer feedback that helps to ensure that OLIVE addresses the critical short- and long-term business needs of our clients.

Applications

OLIVE virtual worlds provide an intuitive medium for meeting, collaboration, and more.

OLIVE enables distributed users to connect in the virtual world as they would in the real world. Make OLIVE enterprise-grade virtual world technology your choice for:

Collaborative meetings

From remote team discussions, weekly updates, sales presentations, and executive fireside chats to brainstorming exercises, project management reviews and more, OLIVE enhances engagement of remote participants and reduces costs compared with alternative communication technologies. Watch an OLIVE video: The Virtual Situation Room for Emergency Operations Center.

Training and learning

Remote users receive instructor-led, web-based, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM^®)-compliant training and/or actively participate in 3-D, experiential, learning scenarios. OLIVE increases user knowledge acquisition and retention, and promotes effective use of remote experts and instructors. Watch an OLIVE video: 3D Emergency Preparedness Training.

Events

From executive presentations, sales meetings and mission rehearsals, to panel discussions, partner forums, and conferences, whenever and wherever small groups to hundreds of participants need to simultaneously collaborate, train and rehearse. OLIVE can be used to reduce travel costs, build social networks, and increase access to constituencies. Watch an OLIVE video: Virtual Police Officer and First Responder Training.

Operational and remote applications

Remote, in-world users can exchange real-time information to support operational decision-making. Using built-in collaboration tools, applications running on a user's desktop can be presented to all logged-in users, who can discuss the situation and potential outcomes as if they were in the same place. This supports better, faster decision-making. Watch an OLIVE video: 3D Hospital Training.

Specialized applications

Developers can build solutions around the OLIVE platform, such as disaster preparedness and medical simulation, or create new and innovative use cases such as groundbreaking behavioral therapy techniques or hazardous military training scenarios. OLIVE's open, non-proprietary architecture enables virtually unlimited possibilities for the creation of distributed collaboration applications using OLIVE's life-like human avatars and large, multi-resolution terrain data to create custom environments. Watch an OLIVE video: Virtually Home.

Value Proposition

Benefits of Using OLIVE Persistent, Secure Virtual Worlds

Why is the virtual world better than the conventional audio or web-based communication or collaboration and training alternatives that organizations use today?

The comparison chart below compares OLIVE virtual worlds with today's communication alternatives. Virtually all of these conventional communications technologies try to re-create the experience of a live, in-person meeting, but usually with higher costs and much less convenience.

OLIVE revolutionizes meetings, training, and operations by delivering an immersive user experience superior to audio and web conferencing systems, without the cost and need for the specialized and location-based equipment of telepresence solutions. And remember, users can join OLIVE virtual worlds anytime, from any place with an Internet connection, and at one of the lowest costs available.

OLIVE-based 3-D virtual world collaboration, training, and events can deliver high return on investment for commercial enterprises, corporations, government, agencies, academia, and organizations across the world.

Experience an OLIVE-based meeting and see how close the engagement and interaction can be to live, in-person events, rehearsals, training and operations.

Comparison: OLIVE Versus Conventional Communication Technologies

Comparison: OLIVE Versus Conventional Communication Technologies

Application	Benefits	Challenges	Costs (per user per year)
Virtual World (OLIVE)	Face-to-face, human-like interaction Multiple, diverse source media sharing Wider range of use cases and environments Record and replay to reinforce and train	Trusted/familiar environments Learning curve IT readiness
Audio Conferencing	Familiar Ubiquitous Perceived to be inexpensive	Poor participant attention span Unclear context/speaker ambiguity No display of data
Web Conferencing	Familiar Ubiquitous Inexpensive	Same interaction issues as audio Single-source media sharing Added cost for phone or VoIP calling
Telepresence or Video Conferencing	Face-to-face like	Requires visiting installed sites Pressure for a camera-ready appearance
Travel for In-person Meetings	Best experience	Productivity loss traveling to meeting Wide variability of cost with no upper limit

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