Moving to OpenSim
Wamlabs Mediatronics has been involved in virtual reality education since 2007. One of our projects, the Hopkins Tibetan Treasures Multimedia Archive (http://haa.ddbc.edu.tw), boasts an innovative eLearning platform for teaching Tibetan language in Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com: Catocala 176,107,600). Tibetan students worldwide visit and use this unique facility.
Now, WLM boasts its own OpenSim (http://opensimulator.org/) virtual platform, currently running in stand-alone mode behind the Dharma Drum Buddhist College (Taiwan) campus firewall. We have begun porting the Catocala installation into this sim (using the XML capabilities of the Open Source Meerkat Viewer), and students have successfully connected to our virtual world via their own personal computers.
Terraforming without limitations
OpenSim is a BSD Licensed Open Source virtual world capable of supporting standalone or grid-structured servers. OpenSim is written in C#, and can run under Mono or the Microsoft .NET runtimes. Our sim is running the Diva distribution (http://github.com/diva/diva-distribution/downloads) of OpenSim on a normal desktop machine running Ubuntu 9.04. Unlike other OpenSim distributions for linux, Diva is pre-compiled. Installation of the Diva software under Ubuntu is relatively straightforward assuming that the host machine already has a fully-functional Mono installation for LSL script comilation and MySQL database to manage persistence.
Wamlabs OpenSim home
OpenSim has numerous advantages over the Second Life platform. Site administrators have complete control over all aspects of the sim. There are no corporate-imposed limitations on build size or number of prims allowed in-world. Entire regions can be backed up in XML format to the local hard drive for archival purposes or public distribution. Because it runs locally it is private and free of lag. Upgrades are handled seamlessly by the Diva distro. Since the software is cross-platform, an instance of OpenSim can be installed on almost any machine with two or more gigabites of RAM. Most importantly, it is Open Source and completely free.
Of course, there are disadvantages as well. The current release of OpenSim is alpha. Compared to Second Life, it has limited scripting and voice functionality and users must rely on forums and chat rooms to resolve bugs and other problems. However, these issues are being addressed by the core software developers. OpenSim is certainly usable now, and looks to become fully functional in future releases.
Our future plans include connecting our OpenSim to the OSGrid archipelago (http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/), expanding its size beyond its current four regions, and hosting classes, conferences, and “visiting” dignitaries on our private, Open Source, virtual campus.
Download the Diva distribution here:
http://github.com/diva/diva-distribution/downloads
Consult the OpenSim wiki here:
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
Read about the Open Metaverse here:
http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/
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