As part of its strategy to increase collaboration across the industry
and academic sectors, Intel Labs announced it will release source code
for its Distributed Scene Graph 3-D Internet technology. This code is
part of an ongoing effort to augment the OpenSim open-source virtual
world simulator and will enable developers to build virtual regions
where people can work or play online with a cast of thousands, instead
of being limited to less than a hundred today – a more than 20 times
improvement. Virtual environments have applications from entertainment
and education to social networking. Intel showed an example of how the
technology could enable a massive multi-player “game” to train first
responders for different disaster scenarios.
Justin Reeve on 24 Mar 11A Holodeck stores Second Life scenes and lets you load them from a menu when ever you want. The old scene is cleared and the new one appears. Scenes can include any prim objects including furniture, pose balls and particle generators.
