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Welcome to Sun's Research and Development Community for Open Education in Wonderland

Sun Immersion Platform

Project Wonderland is an open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3-D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, and can share live applications such as web browsers, open office documents, social applications and games
* Project Homepage
* Live Engineering Forum
* Download v0.5
* Project Wonderland Tutorals

Project Darkstar is software infrastructure that aims to simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications

* Project Darkstar Homepage
* Live Engineering Forum
* Download

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3. SunSPOTs are small, wireless, battery-powered devices developed at Sun Labs to explore the next frontier of network computing - An Internet of Things
* SunSPOT Homepage

Free Software Tools for Wonderland

Groups

Blog Posts

KerryJ

What virtual worlds do you use with learners?

Posted by KerryJ on September 17, 2009 at 4:33pm

Gary Ritchie

Second place in first annual Collada Contest!

Posted by Gary Ritchie on August 22, 2009 at 8:31am — 1 Comment

Rose Tyler

3 Free Dissertation Titles on your subject!!!

Posted by Rose Tyler on July 17, 2009 at 2:17am — 1 Comment

Robert Becker

Call for Presenters: Atlanta, October 2-4, 2009

Posted by Robert Becker on April 23, 2009 at 7:05am

Angie

Minority Report Interfaces: It's really happening

Posted by Angie on March 3, 2009 at 5:30pm

Carl Jokl

The picture

Posted by Carl Jokl on February 13, 2009 at 1:07pm — 5 Comments

 

Forum

Arkowitz

Data Visualization in Wonderland 25 Replies

My company, Green Phosphor, will be launching our data visualization gateway for Wonderland in the first quarter of the coming year. The product is called Glasshouse, and if you point it at your da...

Started by Arkowitz. Last reply by Arkowitz Feb 17.

andy  zbinden

Opportunities for Students etc 1 Reply

You like programming in Java? The only language you speak is object.oriented.programming.in.java? Swing, Webstart, Servlets are well known words to you? Then come and join us as a Java-programmer i...

Tagged: wonderland, zurich, internship, thesis, java

Started by andy zbinden. Last reply by Ismael Aug 7.

Aaron E. Walsh

Immersive Education Initiative

Hello everyone, As Director of the Immersive Education Initiative (http://ImmersiveEducation.org) I am pleased to share with my fellow members of Sun’s ISIG a number of key resources related to th...

Tagged: South America, Asia, node, Own The Node, events

Started by Aaron E. Walsh Apr 7.

Mario

Moodle and Project Wonderland 10 Replies

Hi folks for my bachelor thesis I am working on an integration of Wonderland and the LMS Moodle. My focus is to enable immersive teamwork. Some screenshots of my work: The course page: The di...

Started by Mario. Last reply by Michel DENIS Sep 5.

Michael Gardner

Using Wonderland for online lectures 22 Replies

We are developing MiRTLE using project wonderland to support online lectures, which combine real world (lectures) with virtual students - so this is a kind of mixed reality environment. See http://...

Started by Michael Gardner. Last reply by Michael Gardner Mar 9.

Project Wonderland Virtual Toolkit Blog

La Progetto Wunderland

One of the indicators of the worldwide reach of a project is when you receive complaints about it only being in English. We found ourselves in this position earlier this year when we were contacted on the forums from Switzerland by Ronny Standke. However, Ronny didn't contact us to complain--he contacted us to offer to internationalise Project Wonderland! Since then, working with the core team, Ronny has internationalised the majority of the core source code and also provided German (de) and Swiss German (de_CH) localisations. Not to be outdone, our colleague Michel Denis has provided a French (fr) locale, and I've produced a British English (en_GB) variant of the default US English. 

We invited Ronny to write a blog entry on his experience: 

'Here at imedias, the information center for digital media in school and teaching of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, we were given a task from the canton Solothurn to set up an "active and living environment" for headteachers.
After a long evaluation phase we decided to use Project Wonderland. The reasons for choosing Project Wonderland were:
  • it is available for all major operating systems
  • it can be run without any complex installation (thanks to Java Web Start)
  • it focuses on the more serious aspects of virtual worlds (such asapplication sharing)
  • it is Free Software
  • it is written in Java, a great programming language we can also read and write
However, Project Wonderland obviously has some negative aspects, such as:
  • it is not very mature
  • it is comparatively slow
  • it is not available in the (natural) languages we natively speak in Switzerland (German, French, Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic)

We are confident that Project Wonderland will mature over time and that speed issues will be resolved. The one area where we can help to improve the situation is translating the client to our languages. We downloaded the source code via anonymous svn and performed the localisation (L10n) for German, i.e. we just translated the few resource bundle files we found. Unfortunately, most of Wonderland was still missing internationalisation (i18n). Because we have some experience with i18n/L10n of Java programs we tried adding the missing pieces. After some days of careful source patching, translating, updating from svn and resolving conflicts we had a pretty good i18n coverage.
We did not want to keep this work behind our closed doors so I contacted the Project Wonderland team and asked if they were interested in our work. After sending the initial patch I was welcomed with open arms and a huge amount of appreciation and received developer access almost instantly. Then I tried committing the changes we made piece by piece, checked every change and by doing so noticed several little (mostly cosmetic) things that were crying out for a fix. I became a little too ambitious with it, started breaking things until it raised some eyebrows and was brought back into line. Now I am working in minimal invasive mode, conducting a code review with the owner of the source code before committing my changes and also learned to write bug reports before sending in a patch for review. So, let this be a small lesson for you all future Wonderland contributors. ;-)
Right now we (the whole Project Wonderland team) are still finding pieces of Project Wonderland where i18n is missing or can be improved and fixing those parts. We really look forward to a version where our target group must not jump over a language barrier in addition to the technical challenge they will face when using a virtual world client for the first time in their lives. When working with the development version of Project Wonderland it is great and encouraging to see the improvements that happen to it every day. And it is also great to see that other Project Wonderland team members start taking care of little cosmetic things in the source. ;-)
And (just in case you wondered), we are still calling it "Project Wonderland" here.'

To get some idea of how the user interface changes when using different locales, the screenshots below are of the avatar configuration user interface for the US English, German, French and British English locales, respectively (you may need to widen your browser). Volunteers are needed for other languages, so if you're able to spend a while translating from English, German, French, or British English to some other language, please get in touch.

US English Avatar Selection UI US English Avatar Configuration UI

German Avatar Selection UI German Avatar Configuration UI

French Avatar Selection UI French Avatar Configuration UI

British English Avatar Selection UI British English Avatar Configuration UI

Project Wonderland & The Immersive Education Initiative

Project Wonderland is an accepted open technology platform and only native compatible platform at the Immersive Education Initiative at Media Grid. The Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. Initiative members have early access to the Education Grid, where they can conduct classes and meetings within a growing collection of virtual worlds. Initiative members can also use the Education Grid to build custom virtual learning worlds, simulations, and learning games.
* Education Grid launches with Project Wonderland
* Sun Microsystems Virtual Classroom Unites Global Communities
* Enter the Education Grid
* Join the Immersive Education Initiative

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