VastPark and NICTA: Badumna beta
The title of this story would have to be one of our most obtuse, but the story behind it is hopefully a little more transparent. VastPark is a developing virtual world platform well known to regular readers. NICTA (National ICT Australia) also has a number of years pedigree in some of the technological underpinnings of [...]
Virtual Worlds London lineup finalised
As mentioned previously, we’re a media partner for Virtual Worlds London. It’s looking like a dynamic get-together, with quite a list of speakers finalised. Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon is one of the many notables. If I were attending myself, I’d love to ask some questions of Niniane Wang, Google Lively’s Engineering Lead, on how [...]
VastPark release Immersion player
VastPark have been a littler quiet on the news front recently but they’ve changed that today with the announcement of a virtual worlds’ player called Immersion. The player, which will be open source, will allow for VastPark-created worlds to be embedded into websites. VastPark themselves mention Google Lively as the obvious comparison. CEO Bruce Joy’s [...]
Australia Council announces latest funding winners
The Australia Council have announced the winners of their MMUVE IT! project. The project had thirty thousand dollars up for grabs for a virtual world arts initiative. The winners this time are visual artist Andrew Burrell from Sydney and artist and science researcher Trish Adams from Brisbane. The third real winner this time is startup [...]
vBusiness Expo line-up announced
Virtual world business advisers Clever Zebra are continuing their relentless schedule of events and products with the announcement of the line-up for the July vBusiness Expo being held on the 30th July: – Steve Prentice from Gartner will provide the opening keynote address: ‘Virtual Worlds in Business – Are we virtually there yet?’, “where he [...]
Virtual worlds prominent in BRW’s Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
BRW have run a feature listing the ‘Top 100′ Australian Web 2.0 applications. The list is a co-production with Ross Dawson’s Future Explanation Network and you can see the full list here. The Australia-based virtual worlds that made the list were: 1. VastPark at number 22. 2. MojiKan at number 32. 3. My CyberTwin at [...]
VastPark tools go public
VastPark today announced the public release (albeit an alpha release) of a number of its tools. You can now download a browser to view creations dynamically, a Viewer for “viewing the virtual experience in a static and controlled environment”, an Asset Publisher to get everything online and VastServer for real-time, multi-user interaction. The release is [...]
