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Slide 2R.D. Hackathorn
Outline
• Wandering around Second Life• Features of a Virtual World• Various Virtual World Platforms• OpenSim – Open Source • Avaya Web.Alive – Browser-Based• Unity3D – Flexible Gaming IDE• CryEngine – High End• Immersive Intelligence • Fun Things to Do
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Wandering around Second Life
• http://secondlife.com/ • First light circa 2004, 20M + currently
• Chakryn Forest• NOAA Virtual Islands: Real-Time Weather• Galactic Plane Mural• Asteroid Strike on Mars• Info Vis of ‘Death & Taxes’
• SL Showcase• SL Marketplace
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Features of a Virtual World
• Immersive 3D space• Avatars: edit appearance, clothing…• Communication: IM, voice, documents• Social: groups, friends…• Open viewer architecture, many alt viewers• Multi-language • Currency, marketplace, economy • Land ownership• Performance, stability, growth
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Various Virtual World Platforms
• Gaming MMO WOW, etc, etc
• Social MMO Second Life – the 800 lb gorilla! Others… Active Worlds, Blue Mars, IMVU,
Onverse, Kaneva, Utherverse OpenSim and its variations
• Gaming IDE Unity3D, CryTek CryEngine
• Collaborative Conferencing Teleplace, Web.Alive,
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OpenSim – Open Source
• http://opensimulator.org/ • Open-source multi-platform, multi-user
3D application server• Has a varied community behind it
Intel Research is parallelizing the architecture IBM has contributed code
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Avaya Web.Alive – Browser-Based
• http://avayalive.com/
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Unity3D – Flexible Gaming IDE
• http://unity3d.com/
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CryEngine – High End
• http://www.crytek.com/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHNWj8HmWwQ
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Immersive Intelligence
• Create your own Data World Visualize the patterns and trends in the data Collaborate based on shared experiences
• Holistic Explore the details in the context of the whole Micro to macro…and macro to micro Zooming through levels of detail Render the entire database…all terabytes of it!
• Creative information metaphors Visual objects shaped by data attributes Rendering the natural/familiar to abstract/unusual
• Persistent world, always on
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Fun Things to Do
• Play with Second Life Free registration! Browse/explore with the SL Showcase Find a community with similar interests Build an interesting thing; buy a similar item
• Play with OpenSim Execute the binary on your laptop
• Play with Web.Alive …for 5 minutes only!
• Play with Unity3D Download IDE, load/play samples, watch tutorials