I am having such a wonderful time exploring the Worlds of Virtual Reality as this technology unfolds and develops. It never ceases to amaze me how much we can actually do with this knowledge, which I firmly believe comes through from technology our ancestors once weilded and is just submerged within our subconcious minds, before unknown disasters struck to bury this wisdom until humans developed enough to regain this valuable information. This is an exciting time we live in, and I do hope we hold this Earth together long enough to manifest so many yet unrealized benefits to this amazing technology.

I would like to invite those interested in learning about one of the finest state of the art platforms on the planet, that is ideal for educational and academic solutions with Virtual Worlds, brought to us by Multiverse. They provide a complete Virtual World platform built on widely-used technology standards such as Java, XML, Python, and Cg/HLSL shader languages; No need for your team to learn proprietary languages or technologies.

FEATURES

The Multiverse World Browser, our client application, runs on Windows XP and Vista and includes a state-of-the-art 3D engine that supports “next-gen” rendering features, such as normal and specular maps. Key features include:

* Paging scene manager, which enables large detailed terrain while minimizing graphics load
* Full shader APIs to implement a wide variety of visual effects
* Ability to set the skybox via scripts
* Realistic tree rendering through integration of SpeedTree RT
* Support for multiple real-time lights such as ambient, directional, and point light sources
* Particle effects, terrain decals, and texture modulative shadows
* Client animation system that avoids animation artifacts due to network latency
* Extensive Python scripting API that provides programmatic access to all features of the client, world simulation, and 3D scene
* Scriptable character creation framework

Please visit the Academic and Educations Solutions from Multiverse to learn more about the full list of available features in creating Virtual Worlds. Truly, I have no affiliation with this company… I just love sharing great information when I run across it. I really feel this is a great resource worth checking into for those talented and creative minds who wish to build great new Virtual Worlds to share with our fellow Earth travelers.