Cobalt, Croquet, and other balls up in the air
If you're interested (casually, professionally, personally, other...) in 3D virtual environments as a target for the next generation of education, interaction, and business. (whew! find something that doesn't encompass...) then take a hop over to the Cobalt Project. (blue ball on left) It's a refinement of the 3D Squeak environment Croquet. (red ball on right) Lots of interesting activity going on with this. If you haven't seen this yet, here are a few vids. First, Croquet:
Next up, Rich White and company over at Greenbush Education Service Center are using Cobalt to build interesting things with their Edusim3D project:
Granted, chickens and Alice walking around spinning Sierpiński triangles does not, itself, compelling education content make. However, well, rather than just throw in more vids, check out Kevin Roebuck's post on the same topic. Very cool. Where was all this stuff when I was a k-12 student....
