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Using Kitely Virtual Worlds on Demand for Immersive Courseware

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The story behind Kitely

We began working on Kitely in 2008, with the vision of enabling people to use virtual worlds as an on-demand utility. We showed our initial work to the market, and got many enthusiastic responses from people who stated that they would love to use Kitely in their organizations. We then presented Kitely to dozens of seed-stage investors. However, despite the amazing feedback we had received, we couldn't get any seed-stage investors to back Kitely before we got some real-world traction.

We were left with two choices: either we gave up on an idea in which we truly believed, or we would need to double down and commit ourselves to bootstrapping a solution that professional investors were unwilling to invest in. After considering the great feedback we had received from our potential customers we agreed that we wouldn't let our lack of funding stop us, and we decided to bring Kitely to market using our own limited resources.

It took us more than two years of intensive development until we were ready to start Kitely's public beta in March 2011. During this time Oren worked at another startup, and spent mornings, evenings, weekends and vacations building our solution. Meanwhile Ilan juggled between being a full time dad to his newborn son and working on Kitely during hundreds of long nights.

It has not been easy for us or our families, but we believe bringing you Kitely was worth it. If you agree and want to see us succeed and continue developing Kitely then please tell your friends and colleagues about us.

Ilan Tochner has years of entrepreneurial experience and a profound technical knowledge in software development and management. Ilan formerly held key positions in several funded and unfunded startups, including CEO at IDChoice and Director of Infrastructure Development at OmniSky. Ilan holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from

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Slide 1 : Ilan Tochner | Co-Founder and CEO | ilan@kitely.com

Slide 2 : Virtual Worlds on Demand!

Slide 3 : Class Overview Kitely now Kitely within a year Immersive courseware Open discussion

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Slide 13 : Virtual Worlds on Demand You and your group have the perfect virtual environment to do it in! You want to do something

Slide 14 : Virtual Worlds on Demand (cont) No need to plan ahead No need to administer Pay just for what you use

Slide 15 : Kitely’s Future End-to-end system for organizing virtual activities from selling tickets to providing analytics Dramatically lowers barriers for creating, personalizing, using and monetizing virtual environments

Slide 16 : “YouTube for Virtual Worlds” User generated content library Simple and familiar user interface Hidden complexity via automation

Slide 17 : Virtual Worlds as Apps Find the perfect world for your needs One-time purchase or pay as you go Earn money when people use your worlds If people want it, someone will make it

Slide 18 : Connect to Existing Communities Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, … HyperGrid LDAP API

Slide 19 : Kitely Usage Flexibility Kitely website Embedded into your own website API to use Kitely as a white label utility

Slide 20 : Kitely - Virtual Worlds on Demand As many as you wish Whenever you need them With whomever you want In any way that you want

Slide 21 : Immersive Courseware Avatars reduce social learning barriers Shape the environment, be the lesson Do instead of view

Slide 22 : Immersive Team Building Activities Collaborative building Role playing Treasure hunts Puzzles

Slide 23 : Immersive Training Be in the environment Role play the scenario Use the tools

Slide 24 : Immersive Group Discussions Interactive visual aids on demand Bring anything to class Bring the class anywhere

Slide 25 : Immersive Brainstorming Use 3D objects for ideas Easier to visualize than words Easier to remember than words

Slide 26 : Immersive simulations Interact with a dynamic environment Experience the effect of changing the system Visit the moon while staying at home

Slide 27 : Your Next Steps Go to Kitely to open a free account Learn to use the viewer Start planning immersive courseware Bring in a few students and experiment Let your students be your teachers Share your knowledge with your peers Use Kitely for teaching immersive courseware

Slide 28 : Ilan Tochner | Co-Founder and CEO | ilan@kitely.com Title Slide