1	Kevin Roebuck Community Manager, Immersion SIG Global Education & Research Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2	Motivation Sun's workforce has reached a tipping point On any given day, over 50% of employees are remote (even more on Fridays!) Everyone works remote, even in the office Social Interaction Remote Management Brainstorming Challenge Maintaining culture of innovation
3	Why a Virtual World? Truly informal conversations Multiple, simultaneous Divide and converge Spontaneous = social Space provides context Arrangement of space and type and position of objects impart social cues 3D natural for sharing Potential for providing back-channel cues As a place to do real work High emotional and social bandwidth
4	Video: MPK20 http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/video/MPK20-oct2007.mov
5	Video: Telephone Cell http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/video/WonderlandPhone.mov
6	What is Project Wonderland ? Project Wonderland is a 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, applications and games
7	Major Features High-fidelity, immersive audio Application sharing in 3D world Scalable game server infrastructure Open source, Java-based, highly extensible
8	Architecture
9	Open Source Project http://wonderland.dev.java.net Downloads Source (GPLv2) Technical Forum wikis
10	Overview of Art Path Open art path, use existing tools Commerical: Maya, Photoshop Free: Blender, Gimp Use x3d as interchange format ISO standard, defined by Web3D consortium XML file format Follow-on to VRML J3dFly translator
11	Present status Very new (project started in January 2007) Developer Release only at this time "Small Workgroup" version released (approximately 15-20 simultaneous users) Once that's stable, plan is to focus on scalability in 2008 Environment is completely extensible New Rendering Engine (J/Monkey)
12	Technical Requirements “Modern game hardware” 3D accelerated graphics 128MB video memory ATI or nVIDIA ~1GB RAM Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris Java 6 Scales down to Laptop or up to Grid
13	What's Next? More focus on mixed-reality Create adaptable spaces by breaking the laws of physics and fixed geometry Graceful adaptation to less capable devices Add sensor-based gesture recognition Real-time data visualization In-World Access & Security
14	Key Differentiators Live application sharing Integration with business data Security Open and extensible 100% Java Open source IP rights Distributed Model
15	Vision All work accomplished in the virtual world 3-D Web – Federation of virtual worlds
16	Wonderland in Education Significant interest in “business grade” virtual worlds Safe, Secure, Private and Federated 3-D Worlds Initial applications: Internal collaboration Training / on-boarding Shared simulations Virtual Labs Distance education Student Developers Data Visualization LMS Integration
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