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Saturday, 20 June 2009 11:50 |
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The v-Business Sandbox is now online and in an Alpha Status. The Sandbox is an environment for an enterprise or business to experiment with virtual world technology. The v-Business Sandbox is open to any business who would like to perform this type of research and development in virtual worlds. It is free to attach your server to attach a Sim to the v-Business sandbox and instructions are provided on how to do this. If you would like us to build and host a sim on your behalf we can do this for a small server hosting charge through our hosting sponsor Rackforce. You may connect your virtual world client either Hippo, Meerkat or Secondlife to the Sandbox located at grid.v-business.com:8002 |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 14:43 |
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 12:06 |
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OpenSimulator, often referred to as OpenSim, is an open source server platform for hosting virtual worlds. Or in other words, OpenSimulator is an open source virtual world engine. The engines details can be viewed at www.opensimulator.org. It is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code.
Open source OpenSimulator is a 3D Application Server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or virtual world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. OpenSimulator allows you to develop your environment using the technologies you feel work best. It is capable of hosting alternative worlds with differing feature sets with multiple protocols. OpenSimulator is designed to be easily expanded through the use of plugin modules and several modified distributions exist, such as realXtend, additional plugins can be found on the OpenSimulator Forge. Multiple servers can be integrated into a 'grid' which allows larger more complex areas to be simulated.
The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative to determine whether or not a software license can be considered open source. OpenSimulator designed the software to be easily extendable through loadable modules to build completely custom configurations. OpenSimulator is released under a BSD License, making it both open source, and commercially friendly to embed in products.
Out of the box, OpenSimulator can be used to simulate a virtual environment similar to Second Life ™ (including client compatibility). Other environments, protocols and features are supported via add on modules. For a list of available modules check out the Forge site. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 20 June 2009 13:11 |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 11:54 |
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The v-Business Sandbox was built by members of IBM's virtual universe community. This is a 100% volunteer effort to develop a virtual world for the purpose of understanding how we can better assist and develop vritual worlds for business. The Virtual Universe Community or VUC is a group consisting of over 5000 individuals across the world in IBM today. Every IBMer that is present within any Virtual World or Virtual Universe must comply with the IBM Virtual World Guidelines. The community is responsible for moving IBM into a range of new and profitable industries from the creation of Virtual World Cell Based Mainframes to 24 Hour Virtual Service Desks staffed by avatars around the globe.
HistoryThe Virtual Universe Community was officially launched on September 12, 2006 in conjunction with the IBM Innovation Jam. This component of the Jam was a self-organized collaboration and brainstorming event and was referred to as a 3D Jam. 130 IBM employees collaborated on ideas in the virtual world of Second Life. On November 14, now 400 members strong, the Virtual Universe Communities idea they had logged in the innovation Jam was voted number 1 out of 50,000 entries. The CEO of IBM Sam Palmisano and Irving Wladalsky-Berger presented the results in the world's first virtual town hall. The community grew rapidly and was now close to 1000 members and a new organization was formed. The community celebrated their first year anniversary on September 12, 2007, and today the VUC is over 5000 members strong. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:22 |
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