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Get in the Game

If you'd like to win $5,000 cash then jump in to the Champion the the 3-D Web with Collada Contest. Sponsored by Intel, Khronos Group and the Media Grid Immersive Education Initiative, experience designers can compete to build the most realistic fantastic online experiences using this state-of-the art file format for interactive 3-D content. And,guess what!? Project Wonderland is the ONLY Collada-compatible technology approved for the Education Grid so fire up those Blender or Maya engines and get in the game because Sun is here to help you win that dough and more. Contact us if you'd like to work on an Immersion Grant at your schoool for a student lab to get kids ready for jobs in the new world of 3-D web!

Posted at 08:19AM Apr 24, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[0]

Calling all Students

Before jumping on the Oracle Town Hall webcast, I thought I'd just quickly blog the news that JavaOne is free this year for students. And faculty? You too can get in free if you bring 10 students with you. Sign up today.

Posted at 08:12AM Apr 22, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[0]

Irmos & Project Wonderland

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs, will reveal the preliminary results of the Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS) Project at the 'Immersive Education Summit' - being held at the London School of Economics in London this week.

The IRMOS Project is a 36 month, 12.9m Euro project awarded by the European Commission to a Consortium of 13 leading European organisations. The project aims to develop 'real-time' interaction between people and applications over a service oriented infrastructure (SOI), where processing, storage and networking need to be combined and delivered with guaranteed levels of service.
Within the scope of the IRMOS Project, Giunti Labs is developing one of the user
scenarios for Interactive Real-time Location Based Learning, integrating its Harvestroad Hive Digital Repository and learn eXact Mobile Learning technologies with the Project Wonderland and Project Darkstar Virtual
Worlds and collaboration platforms, running on top of the IRMOS
SOI infrastructure.

Very cool stuff and the beginning of our latest new strategic business partnership in Immersion

Posted at 09:32AM Apr 21, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[1]

Metaverse U

Paul and I met up with Henrik for a nice chat and some darn good pizza at Cafe Zoetrope last week to work out the details of our participation in Metaverse U this year. We're all set to go now for the Project Wonderland presentation and demo of the new 0.5 platform and we're really looking forward to a great event at Stanford on May 29th.

Posted at 12:16PM Apr 16, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[0]

World Builder

Posted at 02:54PM Apr 09, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[0]

Immersive Education - London Summit

The two-day Immersive Education Initiative London Summit featuring keynote presentations on Project Wonderland convenes at 9am on April 23rd 2009 in the Wolfson Theatre in the New Academic Building at the London School of Economics. Students are free so register today.

Posted at 03:58PM Apr 06, 2009 by kevinr in Immersion  |  Comments[0]