Hundreds of Universities and Schools are experimenting with virtual worlds, on-line games and simulations for research, collaboration and learning. Today (21st of January), Sun and St. Paul College held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Sun Center of Excellence for Open Virtual Worlds. Today’s event advances the initial technology demonstration in support of the [...]
My involvement with virtual world protocol design began with a very practical need. I had used Second Life to develop a prototype of a gateway for querying a database and producing a three-dimensional representation of the query result within the virtual world.
For business reasons, I wanted my gateway to be able to work not only [...]
Immersive Education Initiative selected realXtend as a supported virtual world platform. Other important Immersive Education platforms are Croquet, Wonderland (see CyberTech News post about Wonderland) and Second Life (and the open source server OpenSim).
Immersive Education web site at realXtend
First realXtend sever nodes have been already set up at Immersive Education. They were recently demonstrated at [...]
Wonderland is SUN Microsystem’s open source virtual world platform. It is developed in Java, which is not surprising. The server side utilizes Darkstar, Sun’s Java MMORPG engine.
Steps you need to do in order to “follow the rabbit”:
Download the newest Java SE, at least version 5 is needed (be sure to take the 32-bit version, otherwise [...]
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