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Open Wonderland's Games Village
Game 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.
WonderSchool streams world to a tablet
According to WonderSchool, a subsidiary of Germany’s THINSIA, clients can now access the platform on an iPad by having their user session streamed to the device.
NSF awards $549,458 for Cyberlearning project
Staff, Hypergrid Business, December 15, 2011WonderBuilders and Springfield Technical Community College are collaborating to build a virtual campus for teaching English to non-native speakers.
Feelings of presence are examined in the context of an educational negotation role playing game.
Open Wonderland marks first anniversary with free workshops
Open Wonderland — an open source, Java-based virtual world platform — marks the first anniversary of the project’s founding on March 11. To help users learn their way around Wonderland, the platform’s volunteer community will be offering free workshops for users and developers the week of March 22.
Open Wonderland supports drag-and-drop docs
A new Wonderland app now allows users to drag and drop any application into the world that is compatible with the Microsoft Office suite for viewing.
Virtual Cockpit for Executives
A French virtual design firm has created a virtual command center for organizations looking to have all their business intelligence dashboards in a single virtual location. Internet 3 Solutions‘ Cockpit Entreprise 3D is already used by a university and two regional organizations, and was built on top of the Open Wonderland open source immersive environment platform.
Virtual Patients Help Train Student Nurses
A new virtual hospital is helping student nurses to perfect their skills before they treat real patients. Students at Birmingham City University create their own avatars, which they then control on simulated wards....Research shows that nursing students who have used the virtual hospital outperform peers taught by traditional means.....
WonderSchool Makes Alice Immersive
WonderSchool is a portal for schools where they can build their own virtual world, or use an existing one, and give their users access to software programs. Today, WonderSchool offers live Alice workshops for teachers in the Netherlands and Germany....
Media Grid News, November 9, 2010
The Immersive Education Initiative today unveiled iED 3D/VR™, the open and royalty-free cross-platform 3D/VR mesh file format that enables 3D and virtual reality (3D/VR) content to be created once and experienced across a range of virtual worlds, games, simulators and mixed/augmented reality applications. The culmination of over 2 years of work conducted through the Open File Formats Technology Working Group (OFF.TWG), iED 3D/VR is aligned with the COLLADA™ standard and supported by official iED virtual world platforms realXtend, Open Wonderland, Open Simulator ("OpenSim") and Open Cobalt in addition to the candidate iED platform Sirikata.
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