Sun’s Project Wonderland is an open-source virtual world manager

June 4th, 2007 by tim finin

Sun’s James Gosling demonstrated their open-sourced Project Wonderland at JavaOne this year.

Project Wonderland is a 3D scene manager for creating collaborative virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio and can share live applications such as web browsers, OpenOffice documents, and games.

Sun’s goal is to create a multi-user virtual environment that has robust security, scalability, reliability, and functionality, enabling organizations to use it as a place to conduct real business.

“Organizations should be able to use Wonderland to create a virtual presence to better communicate with customers, partners, and employees. Individuals should be able to do their real work within a virtual world, eliminating the need for a separate collaboration tool when they wish to work together with others. Individuals should also be able to tailor portions of the world to adapt to their work needs and to express their personal style. … One important goal of the project is for the environment to be completely extensible. Developers and graphic artists can extend the functionality to create entire new worlds, new features in existing worlds, or new behaviors for objects and avatars.

If you are handy with Java, it might be fun to experiment with this, maybe by prototyping a usecase for a University community.

Posted in social media, sofware, virtual worlds |

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