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Virtual Worlds
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- Discovering Biology in a Digital World : Second Life or Croquet? What do you think?
An excellent blog-based conversation about Second Life, Croquet, and the Open Grid Project.
- Openlifegrid.com A Global Community 3D Metaverse built on Open Source Technology
It's a place to get together meet friends & make new ones, share a virtual cup of coffee or join the crowd & the music in a happenning 'hotspot'.
- Linden Labs launches New Educators Pilot Program in partnership with ISTE, easing entry into SL | The Story of My "Second Life"
So you’re ready to dive into Second Life? Great! Thanks to Linden Lab and a partnership with ISTE, educators coming inworld for the first time have a streamlined, educationally-focused starting point to guide them along the way. Those of us currently in Second Life all remember the day we ‘rezzed’ for the first time and what it was like during those initial few minutes of virtual life.
- CATE: Center for Advanced Technology in Education - Salamander Project
The Salamander Project will create a system for analyzing and codifying 3D learning objects in Second Life to assist educators in searching for and determining the appropriateness of 3D objects, tools, materials, locations and environments for meeting specific learning objectives.
- EDUCAUSE Review — Why IT Matters to Higher Education | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
EDUCAUSE Review is the association's award-winning magazine for the higher education IT community. Published bimonthly in print (21,000 distributed copies) and online, the magazine takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology, how they may affect the college/university as an institution, and what these mean for higher education and society. In addition to EDUCAUSE members, the magazine's audience consists of presidents/chancellors, senior academic and administrative leaders, non-IT staff, faculty in all disciplines, librarians, and corporate staff/leaders. The magazine has won numerous editorial and design awards including APEX Awards for Publication Excellence, Magnum Opus Awards, Ozzie Awards, and a Tabbies Award, as well as being named Publication of the Year by the Colorado Society of Association Executives.
- Real Xtend
open source platform for connected worlds
- Alice.org
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
- Lively - Welcome
Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.
- Dizzywood - a fun virtual world and free kids games
Welcome to Dizzywood, an exciting virtual world for kids. There are all kinds of imaginative places to explore, fun Dizzywood secrets and stories to discover, and fun games to play, including puzzles, arcade games, dress-up games, and much more. Dizzywood is safe for kids and free to use. Click Play Now to start your adventure!
- Sun's Virtual Workplace (Wonderland)
Sun's Virtual WorkplaceOn any given day, over 50% of Sun's workforce is remote. MPK20 is a virtual 3D environment built using the Project Wonderland Toolkit. In this 3D world, employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Just like on Sun's physical Menlo Park campus, known as "MPK," inhabitants of the virtual MPK20 office building can work together in planned meetings, or can talk informally in unplanned encounters. Unlike the physical campus, however, in MPK20, the community can be built and maintained without the constraints of physical location.
- There - the online virtual world that is your everyday hangout
There is an online hangout where you can meet friends, play games and explore a 3D virtual world that's yours to help design and build. Create your own fully customizable avatar - then get in There and join the crowd. Join now! To get a closer look at There, check out our Screenshot Gallery or view one of our Member Created Videos.
- Qwaq Forums: Virtual Worlds
Qwaq provides 3-D virtual collaboration solutions for enterprises. Qwaq Forums are virtual environments used to facilitate interactive online meetings, workflow, project and program management processes, real-time document editing, document sharing, and online training. Qwaq Forums are deployed as virtual workspaces for virtual offices, program management, virtual operations centers, facilitated meetings, and corporate training.
- Main Page - Croquet Consortium
Croquet is a powerful open source software technology that, in the form of the Croquet Software Developer's Kit (Croquet SDK), can be used by experienced software developers to create and deploy deeply collaborative multi-user online vitual world applications on and across multiple operating systems and devices.
- Media Grid : Immersive Education : EVENTS
Media Grid standards, technologies and initiatives (such as Immersive Education) are developed by an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies (see MEMBERS page for details). To join, or for more information, contact the Media Grid standards group director.
- Main Page - OpenSim
The OpenSimulator Project is a BSD Licensed Virtual Worlds Server which can be used for creating and deploying 3D Virtual Environments. It has been developed by several developers. Out of the box, the OpenSimulator can be used to create a Second Life(tm) like environment, able to run in a standalone mode or connected to other OpenSimulator instances through built in grid technology. It can also easily be extended to produce more specialized 3D interactive applications. Check out the list of growing features to get an idea of what OpenSimulator is capable of.
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