A New Open-Source World Suddenly Appears
Grace McDunnough blogged today about Sirikata, an BSD licensed open source platform for virtual worlds aiming to come out in Alpha in the next few months. This is a project from Stanford University, and if you’re a developer you can already download the code.
Take a look at the teaser video. It looks pretty good! (Videos scale to full-screen quite gracefully.)
The plan is to not only to provide a set of libraries and protocols which can be used to deploy a virtual world, but they’re also doing the smart thing and creating fully featured sample implementations.
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In this video Daniel Horn and Ewen Cheslack-Postava gives a high level overview over the Sirikata system architecture. Recorded at Stanford University January 29th 2009.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Good post from Nick on the Clever Zebra blog as a follow-up. 5 Open Source Virtual Worlds Set to Duke it Out in 2009: http://cleverzebra.com/blog/5-open-source-virtual-worlds-set-duke-it-out-2009