Tag Archives: Open Wonderland

Thu, Sep 29 2011
How real is real enough?

How real is real enough?

How real does a virtual environment need to be for users to feel presence? This is a question educators have been researching in the attempt to implement virtual spaces to expand the classroom. For those... 

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Wed, Sep 21 2011
Open Wonderland now supports object exports

Open Wonderland now supports object exports

The Subsnapshot Importer Exporter module is now available in the Wonderland Module Warehouse. First successful test of importing objects using Subsnapshots. (Image courtesy Nicole Yankelovich.) This... 

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Mon, Sep 12 2011
Open Wonderland supports drag-and-drop docs

Open Wonderland supports drag-and-drop docs

One of the great features of Open Wonderland is its application-sharing facility. And one of the benefits this provides is the ability to use OpenOffice in-world to create and edit documents that are compatible... 

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Mon, Mar 14 2011
Open Wonderland marks first anniversary with free workshops

Open Wonderland marks first anniversary with free workshops

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Open Wonderland — an open source, Java-based virtual world platform — marks the first anniversary of the project’s founding on March 11. Open Wonderland was originally Sun’s Project... 

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Tue, Nov 30 2010
WonderSchool makes Alice immersive

WonderSchool makes Alice immersive

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WonderSchool, a startup formed by Els Von Tol and myself, 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... 

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Thu, Apr 29 2010
Resilience during virtual disasters

Resilience during virtual disasters

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Virtual worlds have been offered up in recent weeks as alternatives to physical events because they are disaster-proof. No volcano or tsunami can take down the whole Internet. And virtual events are particularly... 

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