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Project Wonderland - 3D Toolkit for Building Virtual Worlds

Nicole Yankelovich, Principal Investigator, Collaborative Environments Project, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

 

Project Wonderland is an open source toolkit for building 3D virtual worlds for business and education collaboration. Within a Wonderland virtual! world, p s, interact with team members, and have chance encounters with colleagues, all using natural voice interaction. Most importantly, real work can be accomplished with Wonderland's support of X and Java applications as well as innovative telephone integration. With application sharing as the default, people can create, edit, and share documents within the virtual world.

 

Wonderland is built on top of the Project Darkstar game server platform, which provides enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, and flexible integration with other enterprise systems.

 

Nicole Yankelovich is Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Environments program at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington, MA. Her areas of expertise include virtual worlds, collaborative computing, speech applications, hypertext, and user experience design.

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