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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 [...]

Sun and St. Paul College Unveil Center of Excellence for Immersive Education with Project Wonderland

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 [...]

OpenLife blocks SL Viewer in favor to R16.2

To improve stability and crash reporting, OpenLifeGrid (OLG) changed the login to accept only Openlife R16.2 viewer. The viewer is done by KirstenLee Cinquetti take a look at CTN post about OpenLife viewers).

One of the consequences is that Linden Labs Second Life viewer is also blocked out. It seems that this is not a big [...]

Content Injection and Control Protocol (CICP): HTTP for Virtual Worlds

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 [...]