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Virtual Activity-Based Learning Environment.
An innovative educational platform that provides training for geographically remote users in a three-dimensional virtual activity environment.
A virtual activity educational environment is a set of three-dimensional interactive virtual worlds, where users are represented by their own "avatars" – computer characters of the virtual world. Free control of your avatars in the virtual world allows you to interact with three-dimensional virtual objects of study. Communication between users is carried out using voice and text chat. In the virtual activity educational environment, there are two main types of worlds: virtual classrooms and virtual laboratories. The classroom is a virtual copy of a regular classroom with seats for trainees and a multimedia screen (a virtual analogue of a smart board) for presenting materials of a meeting, lecture, seminar, brainstorming, active games, testing. And the laboratory – this is a virtual analogue of a real laboratory, where the functioning of real demonstration and research equipment is simulated by means of virtual reality.
The platform received high reviews from specialists and a large gold medal of the Siberian Fair at the exhibition "UchSib - 2012".
The platform is being tested at Novosibirsk State University, Mid Sweden University (Sweden) and a number of Russian and Swedish commercial firms. The platform is being developed with the support of the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology (Bortnik Foundation).

This is a project about the first flight of astronaut Yuri Gagarin on «Vostok-1» spacecraft and his impressions of Earth appearance from space.
Five thematic shorts were released using 3D graphics that allowed to reproduce exactly a flight path of «Vostok-1» spaceship and to feel realistically: clouds, atmospheric aurora, lightning flashes, hurricanes, volcanoes and Borealis. Carefully simulated reality made it possible to perceive the Earth through the eyes of the astronaut, feel speed of the planet and observe the solar terminator.

Concept of the project contributes to formation of a sense of pride in the results achieved by native cosmonauts, inspires a young generation to love their planet and explore an outerspace.

The films are created with the support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, and designed for a broad general audience. They can be watched in cinemas and on media platforms adapted to format of planetariums and delivered to Ministry of Education of Novosibirsk region to be used in regional schools for educational purposes.
The shorts are shown in the following cities: Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Vyborg, Kaliningrad, Lytkarino, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Vladimir, Orenburg, Barnaul, Novokuznetsk.

The film "Earth as seen by the eyes of Yuri Gagarin".