Why Opensimulator and not Wonderland?
February 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: I am often asked why I decided to select OpenSimulator as the open source virtual world of choice and not Wonderland that was based on Java. IBM has a long history of working on open source projects and they are very strong supporters of Java. This is a language that is supported across all of IBM’s platforms and is a programming environment that we have deep skills in. The decision was not made without extensive research into all of the virtual world platforms. When Wonderland first appeared in June 2007 it was certainly short listed and in the process in IBM research we brought up multiple instances of the platform and we also experimented with MPK20. I was very impressed by the progress the wonderland team was making. They had developed avatars, spatial voice, basic physics, application sharing and collaboration tools.
When I first spoke with Daren Guard in February 2007 the project was only 1 month old and was written in C#. It was a Microsoft programming environment running on a .net framework. IBM officially joined the project when Sean Dague received IBM approval to contribute to the code in July 2007. This was just one month after the launch of Wonderland at the JavaOne conference in June 2007.
So why did IBM decide to contribute to OpenSimulator a brand new project with only a hand full of developers and not Wonderland or another major open source project?
The answer is simple and had nothing to do with the programming language. The reason IBM contributed to the OpenSimulator project was because of the community!
The OpenSimulator community was founded by individuals who were passionate about virtual worlds. The founders and members of the community truly believed then as they do today that they are developing what will be the foundation of the 3D internet. A rich immersive interconnected environment that is quickly gaining momentum across education, research. government, science and business.
I look forward to seeing the wonderland community joining the OpenSimulator project. If IBMers can learn C# so can the team from wonderland.
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[...] In fact, IBM originally short-listed Project Wonderland when it was considering its virtual world platform, said Peter Finn, IBM senior architect, in a blog post today. [...]
oh \o/!!! i had no idea this was a close thing and am very glad that OpenSim was the choice! while we are slow pokes in learning it just from a users perspective, we love it like mad and can see that the open source community makes the difference. i come from a background of extensive blender 3d use and that open source community is absolutely fabulous (ab fab) =)
i hope OpenSim is around a long time and continues making in-roads as the de facto virtual world choice
to me, a virtual world is simply another expressive communication medium and i focus on how to effectively use it as such with absolute faith that very passionate and talented people are making the code tick
in other words, i have full faith in the programmers that give of their own time to better this product, i am forever in their debt and thankful to them for creating such a wonderful place to express creativity and joy =)
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