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Open Cobalt Website
"The Open Cobalt project is made possible by support from the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W.ANR-RIAM Solipsis - Opensource Decentralized Metaverse
A French R&D project (ANR-RIAM) leaded by Orange Labs, funded by ANR and Media & Networks cluster of Brittany , launched in January 2007 and based on prior works dating from 2000. Five partners are involved:
Open Wonderland's Games Village Maria Korolov, Hypergrid Business, January 18, 2012 Game developers in Singapore now have a new avenue to try to find publishers — showcasing their games in the Singapore Games Village, part of the Media Development Authority of Singapore’s new Games Solution Center. Now the incubator will also offer a virtual world, based on the Open Wonderland platform, where developers can demonstrate their games to potential distributors.
Open source 3D virtual collaboration toolkit | Open Wonderland
In ancient times heroes like Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus explored the unknown territories of the globe. Today world traveling has become a teenage tourist activity, but luckily there are always other spheres to be conquered. No, I don’t mean space traveling that used to be so fashionable in the sixties. Forget about the Universe boys, here is the Metaverse! Some daring discoverers already made a Metaverse Roadmap (PDF) with all the stuff we should know about this culturally emerged nature.
The Metaverse Roadmap « NextNature.net
Virtual Worlds
Second Earth : la feuille de route vers le MetaUnivers « InternetActu.net
Par Hubert Guillaud le 04/07/07 | 4 commentaires | 6,607 lectures | Impression “Que se produit-il quand les jeux vidéo rencontrent le Web 2.0 ? Quand les mondes virtuels se télescopent avec les cartes de la planète ? Que se passe-t-il quand les simulations deviennent vraies et que la vie et le business deviennent virtuels ? Quand vous utilisez des cartes de la terre en ligne pour manipuler physiquement la Terre ? Quand votre avatar devient l’agent qui vous représente partout, même dans la vraie vie ?
Second Earth - Technology Review
You are here? In this imaginary composite, the virtual world of Second Life--as embodied in the author's avatar--meets the real world of Google Earth.
Second Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab . It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs , or Viewers, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] enable Second Life users, called Residents , to interact with each other through avatars .Virtual worlds are the golden path to achieving Artificial General Intelligence and positive Singularity, Dr Ben Goertzel’s, CEO of Novamente LLC and author of “ The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind” explained in his presentation “Artificial General Intelligence in Virtual Worlds” given at the Singularity Summit 2007 earlier this month. According to Goertzel, Singularity is no longer a far future idea. About a year ago Goertzel gave a talk “Ten Years to a Positive Singularity — If We Really, Really Try.”
Artificial General Intelligence in Second Life | UgoTrade
Fin 2007, Rémi Sussan nous offrait une passionnante plongée dans les Mondes virtuels qui a donné lieu à publication d’un livre aux éditions Fyp : Demain, les mondes virtuels . Avec les 7 bifurcations de la Réalité virtuelle, Rémi Sussan s’essaye à une mise à jour du sujet. L’occasion de regarder, ce qui a évolué, ce qui n’a pas bougé.