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Opensim compared to other 3D world platforms

Dear reader,
you did maybe already notice my strong interest in the vision of 3D web and usage of 3D software in real life collaborating scenarios.
Following twitter i found this very interesting new post of cleverzebra.com - the free Virtual Worlds for Business Q2 2009 ebook.
It is still very focused on training and meeting scenarios, but [...]

Green Phosphor gives CICP to Public Domain

The purpose of this article is to publish a provisional patent application I filed back in March 2008. The provisional covers Content Injection and Control Protocol, which I created to allow Green Phosphor’s data visualization application to interface with virtual world platforms (see previous article on CICP here).
I recently asked the Slashdot readership whether [...]

Sim on Demand - Part 1

I wrote about Sim on Demand at the OSGrid forum : http://osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=582#p1955 .
Since then, I kept that in mind and watched for the ongoing work on this project, thought about usescases and had some dialogues with the inventor Balaji Sowmyanarayanan.
Some background: Sim on Demand offers exactly this, sims to host regions just when you need [...]

Openlife: Leapfrogging to the evolution of the grid

Tonight a meeting was held for the public on 3DX Island where Sakai was to introduce us to some of the new devs he has working in Taiwan with him at 3DX. We got the pleasure of meeting Padre and Sai OpenLife. Both were very cordial and greeted us as we arrived.
First off though Sakai [...]

Show your slides in realXtend: The easy way

In the previous slideshow howto article, the process of bringing a powerpoint slideshow to a realXtend virtual world was explained. The process was, although technically sound in many ways, also a bit cumbersome.
There is an easier way, especially if your slides are not top secret. 

In the picture above you can see the result. I am taking advantage [...]