Want to build your own virtual world like Second Life? Maybe you need it inside your organization and would prefer to keep it private and customize the heck out of it? Project Wonderland just might be the ticket.
“Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.”
I just spent the last half hour watching a set of video’s that provide a technical overview for Project Wonderland. I must say I’m impressed. In it’s current state (version 0.4) it lo0ks fully functional and ready to support real time 3d avatar based interaction complete with a feature rich audio bridge system. The back end is provided by the open source MMO game engine Project Darkstar.
The system looks good enough today to use for small group collaborative applications and the future 0.5 version promises enhanced scalability and better graphics and avatar support.
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