OLIVE™

Overview

On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE™) is a powerful, dynamic software platform for development and deployment of customized, private, secure virtual worlds where users collaborate, plan, train, rehearse and operate over computer networks using a video game-like 3-D user interface.

Applications

Use OLIVE for:

• Collaborative Meetings — from remote team discussions, updates, presentations, and executive chats to brainstorming and project management reviews
• Training and Learning — where remote users receive instructor-led, web-based, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)-compliant training and participate in 3-D learning scenarios
• Events — from presentations, sales meetings, and product/service updates to panel discussions and conferences
• Operational Applications — where remote users exchange real-time information using built-in collaboration tools, share desktop applications, and make decisions as if in the same room
• Specialized Applications — where developers build new solutions around OLIVE such as ground-breaking behavioral therapy techniques

Features

OLIVE provides an enterprise-ready, software development kit (SDK) including all key components out-of-the-box for standing up an immersive, private, virtual world including:

• Hundreds of customizable avatars with associated animations
• Fully-integrated VoIP-based spatial audio
• Wide variety of pre-developed, industry-specific content
• Built-in application sharing
• Record and playback of activities conducted in-world of any session from any point in time or point of view

SAIC's experienced OLIVE team of engineers, 3-D artists, and operations personnel, backed by best-of-breed teammates, delivers the specialized expertise, support and training programs to solve any virtual world challenge.

Benefits

• Enhances engagement of remote participants, and reduces costs compared to alternative communication technologies
• Supports collaboration and accelerates broad-based and informed decision-making
• Increases users' knowledge acquisition and retention, and makes effective use of remote experts and instructors
• Reduces travel costs, builds social networks, and increases access to constituencies
• Delivers a fully-integrated simulation platform with open, non-proprietary architecture to enable extension and customization to your specific requirements