Here's part what it says on Wonderland's home page:
Project Wonderland: 3D Scene Manager for Virtual Worlds
Project Wonderland is a 3D scene manager for creating collaborative virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio and can share live applications such as web browsers, OpenOffice documents, and games.
Vision and Goals
Getting Involved
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
Getting and Building the Project
Supported Platforms
Foundation Technologies
Project Wonderland and MPK20 News
Vision and Goals
The vision for this multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) is to provide an environment that is robust enough in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and functionality that organizations can rely on it as a place to conduct real business. Organizations should be able to use Wonderland to create a virtual presence to better communicate with customers, partners, and employees. Individuals should be able to do their real work within a virtual world, eliminating the need for a separate collaboration tool when they wish to work together with others. Individuals should also be able to tailor portions of the world to adapt to their work needs and to express their personal style. The types of collaborations that can happen within the space will eventually include audio communication, live desktop applications of all kinds, and collaborative creation of world content (both graphical and procedural).
One important goal of the project is for the environment to be completely extensible. Developers and graphic artists can extend the functionality to create entire new worlds, new features in existing worlds, or new behaviors for objects and avatars. The art path for Wonderland is also open. The eventual goal is to support content creation within the world, but in the shorter term, the goal is to support importing art from open source 3D content creation tools as well as professional 3D modeling and animation applications. More information about content creation tools can be found on the project wiki:
Project Wonderland Wiki - Content Creation
Getting Involved
There are a variety of ways to participate actively in the Project Wonderland community. Developers may wish to volunteer for one of the many features included on our wish list:
Project Wonderland Wiki - Desired Features
Alternately, they may propose and implement features of their own devising. Those with 3D graphic design skills are invited to create new content and animations. User interface designers can help us to invent or refine interaction techniques for collaboration in the 3D world. We invite everyone with an interest in this project to suggest new feature and content ideas. Please add these to the wiki as you think of them and volunteer to help out.
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
MPK20 is the first virtual world created using the Wonderland scene manager. All the artwork for this Sun Labs project is provided here as an example. See the Sun Labs web site for more information and screen shots:
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
Getting and Building the Project
We are still focused on developing, integrating and testing key system components so there are no binary builds of the project available at the moment. If you are comfortable, however, building projects from source with ant, you can download and run the system on your machine. Both the server and client will run happily together on a single modern machine with a good graphics card.
Project Wonderland is a 3D scene manager for creating collaborative virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio and can share live applications such as web browsers, OpenOffice documents, and games.
Vision and Goals
Getting Involved
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
Getting and Building the Project
Supported Platforms
Foundation Technologies
Project Wonderland and MPK20 News
Vision and Goals
The vision for this multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) is to provide an environment that is robust enough in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and functionality that organizations can rely on it as a place to conduct real business. Organizations should be able to use Wonderland to create a virtual presence to better communicate with customers, partners, and employees. Individuals should be able to do their real work within a virtual world, eliminating the need for a separate collaboration tool when they wish to work together with others. Individuals should also be able to tailor portions of the world to adapt to their work needs and to express their personal style. The types of collaborations that can happen within the space will eventually include audio communication, live desktop applications of all kinds, and collaborative creation of world content (both graphical and procedural).
One important goal of the project is for the environment to be completely extensible. Developers and graphic artists can extend the functionality to create entire new worlds, new features in existing worlds, or new behaviors for objects and avatars. The art path for Wonderland is also open. The eventual goal is to support content creation within the world, but in the shorter term, the goal is to support importing art from open source 3D content creation tools as well as professional 3D modeling and animation applications. More information about content creation tools can be found on the project wiki:
Project Wonderland Wiki - Content Creation
Getting Involved
There are a variety of ways to participate actively in the Project Wonderland community. Developers may wish to volunteer for one of the many features included on our wish list:
Project Wonderland Wiki - Desired Features
Alternately, they may propose and implement features of their own devising. Those with 3D graphic design skills are invited to create new content and animations. User interface designers can help us to invent or refine interaction techniques for collaboration in the 3D world. We invite everyone with an interest in this project to suggest new feature and content ideas. Please add these to the wiki as you think of them and volunteer to help out.
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
MPK20 is the first virtual world created using the Wonderland scene manager. All the artwork for this Sun Labs project is provided here as an example. See the Sun Labs web site for more information and screen shots:
MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
Getting and Building the Project
We are still focused on developing, integrating and testing key system components so there are no binary builds of the project available at the moment. If you are comfortable, however, building projects from source with ant, you can download and run the system on your machine. Both the server and client will run happily together on a single modern machine with a good graphics card.
