OLIVE Platform, Products and Services
For user deployment and developers to support deployment of persistent three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds with a variety of offerings, content, training, advanced functionality, and customer services.
OLIVE Product Description
On this page you'll find a description of OLIVE developer and user offerings and licenses, content packs, additional functionality, and the variety of training courses that can support your implementation of OLIVE.
- OLIVE User Deployment Offerings
- OLIVE Content Packs
- OLIVE Developer Offerings
- Optional Functionality Modules
- OLIVE Training
- SAIC Custom Services (OLVPS-SYSAPP / OLVPS-CONT)
OLIVE User Deployment Offerings
User Deployment Offerings are designed for customers who are ready to provide virtual world services or user applications. SAIC provides seven OLIVE user deployment support offerings. These offerings are designed for any size organization interested in using one of OLIVE's out-of-the-box virtual world content applications. They include both customer-hosted application support and SAIC cloud-hosted access services.
- OLIVE Perpetual Concurrent User License Packs (OLVUSE-X)
- OLIVE Perpetual Concurrent User License Annual Maintenance Service (OLVUSEMS-X)
- 90-Day Trial Concurrent User License Pack (OLVUSE-90D)
- Annual SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service (OLVSTDHST-X)
- 90-Day Trial SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service (OLVSTDHST-90D)
- Annual SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service with Video (OLVMEDHST-X)
- 90-Day Trial SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service with Video (OLVMEDHST-90D)
| Offering | Benefit | Components Include | Pricing |
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| OLIVE Perpetual Concurrent User License Packs (OLVUSE-X) |
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Initial license purchase includes:
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Graduated discounting on an incremental concurrent user basis for up to the following potential users: 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 |
| OLIVE Perpetual Concurrent User License Annual Maintenance Service (OLVUSEMS-X) |
Same as the above | Annual Maintenance service includes all of the above plus...
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Graduated discounting on an incremental concurrent user basis for up to 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 potential users |
| 90-Day Trial Concurrent User License Pack (OLVUSE-90D) |
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The 90-Day trial license provides full access and support services, including:
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Up to 50 concurrent users with access to the OLIVE virtual world application of their choice, hosted on the customer's server hardware in their facility |
| Annual SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service (OLVSTDHST-X) |
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Annual SAIC-Hosted User Service provides:
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Priced with graduated discounting on increments of up to 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 or 4000 user limitations |
| 90-Day Trial SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service (OLVSTDHST-90D) |
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The 90-Day Trial Hosted Service provides full access and support services, including:
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Secure, private access for up to 50 concurrent users |
| Annual SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service With Video (OLVMEDHST-X) |
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Annual Hosted Service provides users full access, including:
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Priced with graduated discounting on increments of up to 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 or 4000 user limitations. |
| 90-Day Trial SAIC-Hosted Concurrent User Service With Video (OLVMEDHST-90D) |
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90-Day Trial Hosted Service provides full access and support services, including:
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Priced with graduated discounting on increments of up to 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 or 4000 user limitations. |
OLIVE Content Packs
OLIVE's expanding industry and governmental application content packs currently support a variety of virtual world implementations including organizational collaboration and meetings; healthcare, medical and life sciences operations; government and defense operations and exercise training; public sector; energy management; transportation logistics; financial services; retail sales; and higher education environments. Recent additions to OLIVE's expanding virtual world (VW) content packs include:
- Organizational Collaboration and Meetings Content Pack – The Meeting Content Pack 3-D products and scenes supplement enable collaboration through additional office and conference room objects and settings.
- Army Content Pack – The Army Content Pack 3-D products and scenes supplement enable a variety of individual and group training or planning exercises that provide realistic interactions with weapons, vehicles, and equipment in contemporary urban and country environments.
- First Responder Content Pack – The First Responder Content Pack 3-D products and scenes supplement enable a variety of emergency response, hazardous material response, safety, transportation, and operations training exercises.
- Navy Content Pack – The Navy Content Pack 3-D products and scenes supplement enable a variety of individual and group training or planning exercises that provide realistic interactions with ships, weapons, vehicles, and equipment in contemporary port and ocean-based environments.
OLIVE Developer Offerings
Developer Offerings provide customers with a growing set of existing and available virtual world applications through the Developer Offerings, with or without SAIC's application development services, to create their own unique application for user deployment. Developer offerings give customers access to the extensive OLIVE Software Development Toolkit (SDK) and bundled support and training for developing specific applications and/or running pilots using virtual world technology. These offerings are designed for any size organization interested in developing their own unique OLIVE virtual world application. They include both customer-hosted application support and SAIC cloud-hosted access services.
SAIC provides three OLIVE Developer offerings:
- OLIVE Perpetual Developer Server Pack License (OLVDEV-X)
- OLIVE Perpetual Developer License Annual Maintenance Service (OLVDEVMS-X)
- 90-Day Trial Developer Server Pack Term License (OLVDEV-90D)
The Developer Offerings provide access to the full OLIVE SDK to gain an understanding of the capabilities of the system, and the various technologies and integrated applications that work in conjunction with the OLIVE platform. These offerings can support development, testing, demonstrations, prototypes, and pilots of virtual world technology before committing to a full production deployment.
Both perpetual developer offerings include a non-deployment developer license of OLIVE and four Content Packs that contain pre-built virtual world assets and provide significant functionality out-of-the-box. The Developer Offerings provide associated annual maintenance services for corporations, government, academic organizations, studios, systems integrators, and others who are interested in concept development and pilot user test cases to evaluate virtual world applications that leverage the OLIVE platform capabilities and toolset.
OLIVE Perpetual Developer Server Pack License (OLVDEV-X) – Designed for customers of all sizes interested in utilizing OLIVE's developer capabilities and services to meet their organizational virtual world application development needs. Our perpetual licensing approach provides an affordable path for OLIVE developers to scale their capabilities with growing application needs, while providing the confidence of indefinite license ownership. This offer is priced on a per-installed-machine basis with graduated discounting upon additional developer license installations.
The initial purchase of the Developer Perpetual License includes the complete OLIVE SDK, application content software, user documentation, the Getting Started with Olive In-World Training class, access to Self-Paced Tutorials, the OLIVE Product Knowledge Base, the Self-Support Portal, and the initial year of Developer License Maintenance, which provides online software upgrades and access to on-line OLIVE technical support expertise. The Developer Offerings provide associated annual maintenance services for corporations, government, academic organizations, studios, systems integrators, and others who are interested in concept development and pilot user test cases to evaluate virtual world applications that leverage the OLIVE platform capabilities and toolset.
OLIVE Perpetual Developer License Annual Maintenance Service (OLVDEVMS-X) – The annual maintenance service for the developer license provides OLIVE customers with the confidence that their developers' will have full access to all upgrades of the OLIVE SDK, application content software, user documentation, and the OLIVE Product Knowledge Base. The annual maintenance service also provides ongoing access to on-line OLIVE technical support expertise and the Self-Support Portal. Developer Maintenance Service is priced on a per-installed-machine basis with graduated discounting.
90-Day Trial Developer Server Pack Term License (OLVDEV-90D) – Designed as the entry level developer program for organizations interested in exploring the possibilities and benefits of virtual world applications, and/or evaluating and tailoring the numerous, out-of-the-box applications available within OLIVE for potential deployment. Organizations can evaluate proof-of-concept application prototyping; ideas for start-up businesses; higher education research groups; or the benefits that OLIVE can provide organizations. This affordable program is designed to provide access to the OLIVE Windows SDK with the necessary support assistance to enable an in-depth evaluation of OLIVE's extensive virtual world applications.
Optional Functionality Modules
SAIC offers optional OLIVE Functionality Module products that can enhance telephony; the photorealism and physiology of like-like human avatars, and interact with legacy systems. These products can be purchased as a one-time perpetual license. Upon purchase, the customer is granted access to the module's product upgrades and support services through the purchase of any OLIVE Perpetual License Annual Maintenance Service Offering. A description of the Functionality Modules appears below.
| Functionality Module Products | Description |
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| Telephony Integration (OLVTELE) | Provides the ability to place real phone calls into the virtual world and hear in-world discussions. |
| Facegen Converter (OLVFACE) | Provides the ability to build photorealistic faces for OLIVE avatars. |
| Physiology Module (OLVPHYS) | Provides a pre-configuration of the OLIVE hierarchical, finite state machine that programmatically simulates different patient behaviors through the patient avatar Provides real-time physiology data based on a state model for avatars in OLIVE. |
| Legacy Link Module (OLVLEG) | Provides the ability for OLIVE to interface with peer-to-peer distributed interactive simulation (DIS) or high-level architecture (HLA)-based applications through a gateway. |
OLIVE Training
OLIVE offers six different training classes and programs from beginner and advanced users to administrators and developers.
- Self-Guided In-World Orientation with Quick Guide
- Getting Started with OLIVE
- OLIVE Advanced User (OLVTRN-ADV) - Two-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
- OLIVE Server Administration (OLVTRN-SER) - Two-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
- OLIVE SDK Programming (OLVTRN-SDK) - Four-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
- OLIVE Content Creation (OLVTRN-CONT) - Four-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
OLIVE comes with a Self-Guided In-World Orientation complete with a start-up area that provides automated instruction for new users to the in-world environment. Users learn how to move around in-world; use their avatar inventories; change look-sets; customize their avatars; execute simple gestures; teleport to other locations; and use other basic features. Most first-time OLIVE users become comfortable with basic operation of the avatar in the virtual world after a few minutes in the orientation space. We also provide a one-page Quick Guide to keyboard operations and short-cuts to help users get quickly up to speed.
Getting Started with OLIVE — Included with any OLIVE license or User Hosting Service Purchase
Getting Started with OLIVE is the recommended first training class. It is included in the purchase price of any OLIVE License or User Hosting Service. Students learn the basic OLIVE functionality and receive an overview of its features and capabilities. The target audience, course objectives, and overview are summarized below.
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Complete novices to experienced users of persistent virtual worlds such as OLIVE. Pre-requisite: Prior experience in using online games or virtual worlds to fully capitalize on this training and the concepts Absolute beginners are welcome. |
Methodology: This instructor-led course is delivered through a shared in-world presentation inside OLIVE with a question and answer session where participants explore a variety of key concepts Instructors walk participants through OLIVE's development processes, workflows, use cases, implementation methodology, and lessons learned |
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OLIVE Advanced User (OLVTRN-ADV) — Two-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
This two-day in-world instructor-led course provides more training in OLIVE collaboration techniques and technology or course development for up to 25 students. The class focuses on the use of the collaboration features. It is recommended for virtual world users that are developing courses and/or making extensive use of the collaboration features. The target audience, course objectives, and overview are summarized below.
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Experienced users, administrators, and developers of OLIVE who intend to use digital media or online learning content within an OLIVE persistent virtual world Pre-requisite: Some experience with the OLIVE Client and an understanding of the OLIVE SDK and OLIVE architecture to fully capitalize on this training and its concepts |
Methodology: This instructor-led course features a series of presentations, lectures, hands-on exercises, and sample cases where participants learn specifics on the use of digital media content on a shared basis within OLIVE. SAIC instructors demonstrate a variety of procedures, workflow, and collaboration techniques for demonstrating and presenting media within persistent virtual worlds. |
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OLIVE Server Administration (OLVTRN-SER) — Two-Day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
This two-day in-world instructor-led course provides the skills to properly setup and configure server operations for OLIVE in a standalone Windows or distributed Linux® environment for up to 25 users. This course covers the material in the OLIVE Administrator's Guide and provides additional knowledge transfer of lessons learned from our experienced operations staff. The target audience, course objectives, and overview are summarized below.
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IT personnel or managers, or system and network administrators responsible for creating and supporting an OLIVE persistent virtual world on a network or through the Internet Pre-requisites: Some knowledge of MySQL®, Perl®, and distributed server applications to fully capitalize on this training and the concepts |
Methodology: This instructor-led course features a series of lectures, hands-on lessons, and step-by-step learning processes where participants learn the details and specifics of setting up and maintaining an OLIVE server or server cluster. Course instructors are skilled OLIVE administrators who demonstrate processes, workflow, and optimization techniques consistent with the demanding requirements of persistent virtual worlds. |
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Based on our experience, we have created a series of classes specifically for developers who will customize and use the virtual environment. These audience-specific classes cover material described in the OLIVE Artist's Guide and OLIVE Developer's Guide and provide examples and lessons learned. Additional troubleshooting and reference information for developers can also be found in the online OLIVE Product Knowledge Base. One or both of the following courses is recommended for personnel who are responsible for the actual development of OLIVE in your organization.
OLIVE SDK Programming (OLVTRN-SDK) — Four-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
This four-day in-world instructor-led course provides a working understanding of the methods and functionality used by virtual world programmers to design applications for OLIVE using standard C++ for up to 25 new users. The target audience, course objectives, and overview are summarized below.
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Developers who intend to alter or customize an OLIVE persistent virtual world through software development Pre-requisites: Knowledge of C++ object-oriented design and code development to fully capitalize on this training and its concepts |
Methodology: This instructor-led course is a series of lectures and hands-on code sample learning modules where participants learn the details and specifics of programming for OLIVE. SAIC course instructors are skilled OLIVE developers who demonstrate processes, workflow, and optimization techniques consistent with the demanding requirements of persistent virtual worlds. |
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OLIVE Content Creation (OLVTRN-CONT) — Four-day In-world Instructor-led Training Class
This four-day in-world instructor-led course provides the working knowledge for developing content within OLIVE for up to 25 new user students who have significant experience with creating real-time content using 3ds Max®. This course introduces the art of developing new 3-D content for OLIVE using 3ds Max and other associated tools. The target audience, course objectives, and overview are summarized below.
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Experienced artists, 3-D modelers, and content developers who intend to add new and custom 3-D assets to an OLIVE persistent virtual world Pre-requisites: Significant knowledge and expertise in 3-D modeling for real-time graphic application with specific experience in 3ds Max to fully capitalize on this training and its concepts |
Methodology: This instructor-led course features a series of lectures, presentation material, hands-on 3-D modeling learning modules, and exercises that provide a comprehensive exploration of the requirements, details, and specifics for generating new objects and custom OLIVE content. SAIC course instructors are skilled OLIVE 3-D artists who demonstrate processes, workflow, and scene creation techniques consistent with the demanding requirements of persistent virtual worlds. |
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SAIC Custom Services (OLVPS-SYSAPP / OLVPS-CONT)
SAIC provides two separately priced OLIVE professional services offerings designed to meet any customer custom need.
- OLIVE Systems Applications Design and Integration (OLVPS-SYSAPP)
- OLIVE Custom Content Programming (OLVPS-CONT)
Both offerings can be purchased as eight-hour increments and/or as pre-packaged firm pricing. These two offerings support the performance of the following tasks: requirements analysis; designing or leveraging existing 3-D content; adaptation of real-world experiences to virtual simulations; implementation and customization of OLIVE; integration with third-party applications; new feature development; custom hosting; virtual stage management; operational support of large-scale deployments; post-event processing, and more.
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Software Development Toolkit
SAIC's OLIVE provides the benefits of leading distance collaboration and training functionality along with a fully-integrated simulation platform through a software development toolkit (SDK) that enables extension and customization to meet your specific requirements. All key components for standing up a private virtual world are provided out-of-the-box, including hundreds of customizable avatars with associated animations and fully-integrated voice over Internet Protocol-based spatial audio.
Private virtual worlds out-of-the-box
OLIVE is an open, distributed, client-server platform for building your organization's private, realistic virtual worlds. The architecture scales from single-user applications up to hundreds of concurrent users. The SDK provides an API, 3-D content, and third-party system integrations and tools to create and edit 3-D content and scenarios. An at-a-glance view of SDK tools and capabilities is summarized in the circle diagram at the bottom of this page.
Key SDK Features:
- Non-player Character Support: OLIVE provides the ability to integrate with industry-leading, third-party, artificial intelligence packages through an application programmer's interface to support non-player characters (NPCs) or other real-time data feeds.
- Custom Content: Import your own 3-D objects from Autodesk® 3ds Max® or static models via COLLAborative Design Activity (COLLADA) from other 3-D modeling tools.
- Custom Terrain: OLIVE's paged terrain format supports large-area and multi-resolution terrain data in a World Geodetic System (WGS-84)-compliant, geospatially referenced format.
- Scene and Scenario Editors: Mix and match terrain scenes, objects and loadable "actives" to create reusable, realistic or imagined settings. Configure scenarios with role-based positions and preset clothing for repeatable training exercises or practice sessions.
- Physiology Model: Enhance realistic, medical team training simulations with this plug-in model that calculates the conditions, behaviors and responses of patient avatars.
- Legacy Link: Interface through a distributed interactive simulation.
Overview of the SDK Tools and Content
Overview of the SDK Tools and Content
Services
Comprehensive Services for Development and Deployment of Virtual World Applications
SAIC delivers professional services to support development, launch, deployment, and hosting of your virtual world solutions. Our experienced team of engineers, 3-D artists, and operations personnel, backed by OLIVE Teammates can provide a wealth of specialized expertise.
We can help optimize content and develop it cost-effectively to reduce time-to-market, and we can lower risk through our support, training programs, and knowledge transfer. The SAIC OLIVE Team provides comprehensive training for organizations that want to develop and host their own virtual environments using the OLIVE platform.
The SAIC OLIVE Team can help your organization:
Reduce Risk
Our OLIVE team can help to reduce the risk of launching and deploying your virtual world solutions. Get the results faster, ramp up your learning and mitigate downtime and mistakes. Our OLIVE training programs can support the rapid transfer of our knowledge and best practices to your team.
Improve Time-to-market
Our experts can augment your existing IT and development team to help your organization get to market faster to achieve your desired business results.
Optimize Content
We can work with your organization to deliver creative, visually appealing content that is optimized for real-time performance and reflects your brand image.
Support Cost-effective Content Development
Our virtual world development expertise, combined with your organization's brand, business, and process knowledge, can provide the most efficient combination for accomplishing your goals.
Our OLIVE Services include:
Training
OLIVE's training team is focused on rapidly sharing the appropriate knowledge with your program managers, instructional designers, 3-D modelers, software developers, and IT or operational personnel to support your success with OLIVE. We offer a variety of training courses through electronic (using OLIVE of course!) and/or on-site delivery options.
Program Management
OLIVE program managers can help ensure your virtual world project is on time, within budget and ready for successful operation. Our program managers can support you from start to finish, concept to deployment, and all along the implementation pipeline. We are ready to assist with requirements definition, scenario design, technical delivery details, and more to help ensure the smooth rollout of your enterprise virtual world.
System Integration
Our team of experts can help to integrate OLIVE with your existing business systems to leverage your existing infrastructure investments. Our support can include integration to your Learning Management System, Human Resources, or unified communications systems as well as integration of real-time Geographic Information System (GIS) or Global Positioning System (GPS) data feeds from remote sensing systems into your OLIVE instance. View OLIVE system requirements.
3-D Content Development
OLIVE's professional 3-D artists and content creators can help produce the 3-D assets for your specific OLIVE virtual world. Whether it is processing or re-using models from external sources (like computer-aided design (CAD)), or generating new models, our content creators are ready to create everything you need — from personalized avatars and custom avatar clothing or uniforms, to vehicles, buildings, neighborhoods or office objects.
Feature Development
OLIVE engineers can create new functionality and features or new OLIVE Client user interface elements to meet the needs of your particular project or program. We frequently include newly created and custom features in future standard releases of the OLIVE software platform and the OLIVE software development toolkit (SDK).
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