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Rare Tour of Sun Microsystems' "Wonderland"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the back-to-dumb-terminals dept.

Surinder Kahai writes "Last week I had the rare opportunity to see an emerging virtual world called Wonderland, the product of an open source project, Project Wonderland, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. The tour was given by Nicole Yankelovich, Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Environments Project at Sun Microsystems. Some of the key aspects of this dynamic virtual world are voice communication with distance attenuation, the ability to join a Wonderland meeting through a regular phone if a computer is not handy, and the sharing of applications such as Open Office. Wonderland is currently being used by educational facilities and can be used by other organizations for virtual collaboration. Since the project is an Open Source project, users can tweak the tools available to suit their particular purpose."

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  1. Re:Why? by Kingrames · · Score: 3, Informative

    That sounds pretty useful to me. It'd be nice to be able to show 3d images in a business presentation, and that's something videoconferencing doesn't quite get down right.

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  2. Re:huh? by nathan.fulton · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been in early development, and many people view it as a futile waste of time. It's not inaccessible though, you can download it here: https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html There are also links to extensive documentation on that page.

  3. Next Stop Wonderland by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been there. Boston, the T, Blue Line. Good chow, nice Aquarium...

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  4. Reminds me of the movie Disclosure by xquark · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now where is that angel that kept on appearing?

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  5. Re:JAVA by mhall119 · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those interested, Wonderland is written in Java.

    And presumably you'd only need to start the Virtual World once. It's not like we'll have to flood the servers and start all over from scratch.

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  6. Re:A Wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I take it you just grab whatever hogwash was true when you hated the company and continue to spout it off. Sun actually booked a PROFIT last year, they had revenues up 6.2% (13.87 Billion) and a better than expected 8.5% operating margin.