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."

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[kellyb9]

I wonder if Wonderland runs JAVA. I'd be by the time they got the thing Virtual World started it was time to go.

Re:oh joy

[PrescriptionWarning]

well you could hitchhike your way there naked, but it might be weird

how many of you

[jacquesm]

clicked the bio link to see if she's hot and didn't bother to click the article ?

Re:Why?

[palegray.net]

I've been working feverishly on Duke Nukem Forever, getting mighty close to release ...

I was 100% on board with you until that part, at which point Steve Jobs ran past me and the reality distortion field overwhelmed my senses.

Re:Why?

[jank1887]

your body is a wonderland...

Re:oh joy

[ILuvRamen]

You got that right. Ever notice how on CNN they put a giant, 90 degree rotated plasma or LCD right next to the real people who are sitting there and show someone who's far away on it like they're there too. It's like freakin star wars! If they can do it, everyone can soon enough. Ooh speaking of that, I gotta get me one of those million dollar multitouch magic screens too :D

Re:oh joy

[Anonymous Coward]

Having a Stargate convention is never a good idea. Oh, believe me me, I do know all there is to know about the crying game. It's still not a good idea.

Re:Why?

[Jon_E]

i think you're confusing this with neverland ranch you perv ..

Re:Why?

[lostmongoose]

Your use of the word 'almost' has me both disturbed and curious at the same time...

Re:JAVA

[myowntrueself]

For those interested, Wonderland is written in Java.

and will go down in history as the first virtual world which requires all the RAM in the known universe.