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Evolution of OpenSim: RealXtend joins OpenSim

The excitement in the open source virtual world developer community has been bubbling over since realXtend brought many OpenSimulator developers over to Finland to reveal the extraordinary amount of work they have done “extending” the function of the OpenSimulator project in just 4 months. See here for an account of this amazing meeting in Oulu, […]

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EvoGrid:
Bruce Damer’s Vision for the 22nd Century

Imagine an L-System forest, a herbivore simulation and a carnivore simulation all developed separately without each having its own graphical front end. Each object in the separate simulations would communicate locally or via the network using some agreed upon protocol. Next, picture one or more 3D front end “view portals” with all the bells & […]

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The Archeology and Future of Software Design:
Meeting Grady Booch

Mirror Worlds will transform the meaning of “computer.” Our dominant metaphor since 1950 or thereabouts, “the electronic brain,” will go by the boards. Instead people will talk about crystal balls, telescopes, stained glass windows, wine, poetry, or whatever – things that make you see vividly. (Mirror Worlds, David Gelertner 1992) As the meaning of “computer” […]

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