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Rare Tour of Sun Microsystems' "Wonderland"
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."
If it's open source, why is seeing it rare?
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You know, people might have said this was a ridiculous waste of time a couple years ago cuz you might as well just do it all in real life. But these days if you can have a Stargate convention in a virtual world without having to spend $700 on travel or having to leave your house or having to put on clothes, that's a good idea :D
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Yeah, and Firefox pretty much does the same thing as Internet Explorer, and Ubuntu pretty much does the same thing as Vista. People should stop making the same things over and over again! It's just a waste of time and nobody gets anything out of it! I've been working feverishly on Duke Nukem Forever, getting mighty close to release, but now you've made me think. Why should I spend my time on DNF, when other Duke Nukem games already exist? Hey, as long as people can somehow accomplish something similar to what they might want to do, that's close enough, right?
The fact that some people have obviously spend a good deal of time working on this (and Sun has invested in it) is a fairly good indicator that some people think there is something missing from currently available tools. And even if you don't think there is a good reason for it- guess what, they're not going to force you to use it! Unless they can get you into a teleconference with them and convince you to point this ray gun at your head...
Bad news for your company. Have you seen the people that are able to use SecondLife? If your product strategy people can't do LiveMeeting or SL... you need to be looking for another place to work IMO.
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A lot of people laughed at the concept of a commercial web not too long ago...
If you're interested in 3d virtual collaboration, you should check out opencroquet.org. Strangely, QWAQ was mentioned in the article, but not opencroquet.org (which QWAQ is built on top of).
The best part is that Croquet has a very unrestrictive license if you're interested in developing commercial applications.
thats where the jack comes in, direct neural interface. basically you fake every sensory input, this includes a override on the nerves going from the inner ear to the brain.
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