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Open source 3D virtual collaboration toolkit

Open source 3D virtual collaboration toolkit
Open Wonderland's Games Village Maria Korolov, Hypergrid Business, January 18, 2012Game 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.

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API (beta) Do you want a quick sketch-creator on your homepage? Try the embeddable version of cosketch. ProjectIdeas - openwonderland - Open Wonderland is a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. This material is distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. To obtain a copy of the original source code, make a request on the Wonderland Forum. Anyone in the community is invited to add projects to this list by commenting on this page. Please use the template provided below. Second Earth This version of the story contains additional content that was not published in the print edition of the magazine. This bonus content appears in special boxes found throughout the story. The print version of the story can be found here.

Collaborative Tools Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! Virtual World Links This year there are a number of virtual world tours planned which require you to download and install software prior to embarking on your virtual adventure. This is a listing of the software that you will require if you want to participate in some of the tours. Second Life Obviously this is where the majority of the conference will be held. If you have never been in second life before it is recommended that you try it out for a day or two first just to get the hang of things. World of Warcraft

The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit & Guide Dropbox, the app we all (at least many of us) know and love, has a plethora of advanced uses to make life so much easier in managing data between multiple computers and online. We’ve posted several roundups of tips and tricks for Dropbox and now we present our ultimate toolkit and guide. We’ve pulled all our tips and tricks together and added quite a few more. Additionally, share your Dropbox tips and tricks and we’ll update the list to share the fun with everyone. Dropbox?

Android App Turns Phone Calls Into Interactive Social Media Exchanges The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Innobell Open Atrium Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations and collaboration. Open Atrium 2.x for Drupal 7 A new architecture for Drupal 7 that is built upon Panopoly and intended as an extensible collaboration framework. Adds the ability to have private "sections" within a collaboration space with granular access control.

Metaverse The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space,[1] including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the internet. The word metaverse is a portmanteau of the prefix "meta" (meaning "beyond") and "universe" and is typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe.[2] Developing technical standards for the Metaverse[edit] Conceptually, the Metaverse describes a future internet of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe,[2] but common standards, interfaces, and communication protocols between and among virtual environment systems are still in development.

Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare. Hello, We launched Writeboard back in October of 2005 as a stand-alone service. A few years later we integrated Writeboards into Basecamp Classic and Backpack. Today, the vast majority of Writeboards are created inside those two products. As part of refocusing on Basecamp, we’ve decided to retire Writeboard.com.

Artificial General Intelligence in Second Life  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.” The slide that opens this post was in Goerzel’s presentation.

Whiteboard tools - CPsquare From [[ CPsquare]], the community of practice on communities of practice. An online drawing tool for diagrams with a shared interface allowing multiple members to draw. To share drawings and allow for collaborative development of a diagram. A virtual shared whiteboard which allows community members to share drawings and create new ones allows the community to: develop common models and frameworks in real-time, and share those models easily with others. Together/apart, Synch/Asynch: Interaction/publication: Individual/group: Pen, Erase, Basic Drawing, Autoshapes (with Custom Shapes), Autoconnection, Text, Comments, Pen and Eraser Features, Basic features to draw.

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