March 15, 2008According to an anonymous blogger on Sun Microsystems’ website (quoting an InfoWorld article), Sun plans to create a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the iPhone using Apple’s new iPhone SDK, to be ready in June 2008. Way cool! If that happens, the next step would be a Project Wonderland client for the iPhone….
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March 5, 2008Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks.
I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of “rooms” [...]
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February 29, 2008Today I finally got around to installing a new version of Debian Linux, this one the “testing” release code named Lenny, because it is supposed to include Java6 JDK, which I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get to work on the “Etch” release of Debian. Etch only has Java5 JDK, which won’t quite [...]
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February 25, 2008I 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 [...]
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February 23, 2008I found this video on a networking site I’ve just joined, about some 3D software I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago, when this blog was brand spankin’ new, 3DXplorer. I left a note for the creator asking permission to link to it from here, but then I found out his video [...]
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February 19, 2008The Virtual Worlds preservation workshop at Stanford, funded by the Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, is over now. Partner institutions besides Stanford are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland and Rochester Institute of Technology. I attended via Skype conference call with text chat on the side, augmented with a dynamically-updated Google Doc page where [...]
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February 18, 2008After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]
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February 16, 2008Someone in the SecondLife audience at the Stanford Metaverse U conference, listening to the presentation by Jon Brouchard about Wikitecture said Jon has blogged about this at http://archsl.wordpress.com.
One of the points in Brouchard’s talk was something about people always asking if they can import their content from other 3D worlds into SecondLife. He said, not [...]
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February 16, 2008The current speaker at the Stanford Metaverse U conference, Toni Parisi, is one of the principals in the X3D format development. I’ve written a bit about that in this blog, since Sun Microsystem’s Project Wonderland specifies that for creating content in their virtual world, which I’m presently researching and hope to implement on my desktop [...]
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February 15, 2008I’ve given up trying to configure Ubuntu to use as anything but a desktop system. It’s very pretty, and would be an excellent end-user computer for someone to use for web surfing and email, and maybe running SecondLife, but at least as I installed it (important caveat), it doesn’t have the right packages to let [...]
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