Rare Tour of Sun Microsystems' "Wonderland" 83
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."
Re:Why? (Score:4, Informative)
That sounds pretty useful to me. It'd be nice to be able to show 3d images in a business presentation, and that's something videoconferencing doesn't quite get down right.
Re:huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Next Stop Wonderland (Score:3, Informative)
Reminds me of the movie Disclosure (Score:3, Informative)
Now where is that angel that kept on appearing?
Re:JAVA (Score:4, Informative)
For those interested, Wonderland is written in Java.
And presumably you'd only need to start the Virtual World once. It's not like we'll have to flood the servers and start all over from scratch.
Re:A Wonder (Score:4, Informative)
I take it you just grab whatever hogwash was true when you hated the company and continue to spout it off. Sun actually booked a PROFIT last year, they had revenues up 6.2% (13.87 Billion) and a better than expected 8.5% operating margin.