NMC and VWs

Written on February 25, 2008 by Katherine W. Prawl

I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems called Open Virtual Worlds, which includes “developing and extending” Sun’s Project Darkstar and Project Wonderland by creating content for those virtual worlds.

Not only have I been aware of NMC in SecondLife since they burst on the scene there, but their CEO, Larry Johnson, is a director of the ISM Corporation, which is the nonprofit that supports the International Spaceflight Museum, which I lead. Small world. Or small worlds. Here’s a video Larry recorded and posted on YouTube about their project:

By the way, Bob Marcus has promised to make the NCOIC conference proceedings available to members of the Serious Second Life Group in Boulder, of which I’m a member. So I may have more to say about this event later, even though I won’t be able to attend since there will not be a SecondLife blended reality event.

Posted in Blended Reality, Conference, Metaverse, Open Source, SecondLife, Virtual Worlds, Wonderland

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