Forterra Futures

2/4/2008 Forterra Futures. Robert Gehorsam is the President of Forterra Systems, Inc. This fascinating interview covered Forterra's work with the University of Maryland's Transportation Laboratory (which is using a virtual world to train I-95 emergency response teams) led to a broader discussion of the role of simulation...which led to an interesting discussion about work being done at the University of Central Florida, and my favorite term of the day: the military-entertainment complex.

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Robert Gehorsam, President of Forterra Systems Inc. The IEEE called Forterra Systems one of the big technology winners of the year. The Serious Games Institute at Coventry University (UK) chose Forterra's OLIVE virtual world platform as their technological backbone.

Some background reading on their discussion topics:

Forterra's OLIVE platform and association with There.com from MacKena Technologies, Inc. See OLIVE in action!

Investors, including IncuTel, the anomalous and secretive investment firm founded to develop security technology solutions for the CIA

Open Source, Open Standards and Interoperability. Information Age carried a story providing excellent insight into business opportunities presented by this technology paradigm.

Discussions about specific clients. Some clients are not currently publicly known due to corporate secrecy, others are classified national security secrets. What is revealed, however, should prove interesting!

We will probably focus a fair bit on a project targeting emergency response & traffic control on I-95, which was created in conjunction with the CATT Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park

Mr. Gehorsam will also talk about his views of the future. You might find it useful to take a look at The Metaverse Roadmap, which is outlined here. (From a brief phone conversation, he had some fascinating things to say about the prospects for mirror worlds.)