March ← 2009 ← Greenbush Labs

GreenbushGrid (on Opensim) Starts Piloting CSI World Next Week 1

Mar

2009

We start pilot testing the GreenbushGrid (powered by Opensim) CSI World Next Week with 4th, 6th, and 7th graders. More on GreenbushGrid here: http://grid.greenbush.us Quick preview here:

Mozilla set to Develop Web 3D Standards for the Browser

Mar

2009

The “3D Web” has been around for many years … but bringing a “Plugin-less” web browser friendly client looks to be underway by Mozilla Khronos has set up a working group to create a standard for what it calls accelerated 3D graphics on the web. It could lead to widespread browser-based gaming as well as ...

Immersive Education London Summit: April 23rd-24th

Mar

2009

I will be presenting Edusim – Cobalt and the Mobile Immersive Learning Lab at the Immersive Education London Summit next month (April 23rd-24th). The event will certainly prove to be a very exciting one this year with augmented reality being previewed in several of the sessions. For those in or around London or venturing across ...

You know Open Source has Gone Mainstream when…

Mar

2009

You know Open Source has Gone Mainstream when… Microsoft dives in head first (they have had their toe in the water for a few years now)! Below is a piece from ComputerWorlds blog “We are moving from the technology footing we have been building to a business footing,” says Sam Ramji, senior director of platform ...

Twitter – The evolution of the RSS reader

Mar

2009

Twitter and Google Reader are quite different tools under the hood. Twitter is VERY user friendly only requiring the user to “follow” other users that “tweet” (enter text in 140 characters of less) the information they are interested in. Google reader (and other RSS readaers) required the user to grab (usually copying and pasting the ...

Moodle3D – Moodle to Opesim/Wonderland/Cobalt Port: Phase 1 Moodle to Opensim 2

Mar

2009

- (In reference to Moodle3D) Sloodle developers are carrying the torch for “Phase 1 - Moodle to Opensim” … there is a meeting planned for tomorrow (led by the Sloodle team) , the details are below ! ============ What: Moodle 3D Phase 1 – Sloodle/Moodle to Opensim When: Wednesday 18th at 2pm SL/PDT or 9PM ...

Moodle meets Opensim (Open Source Virtual Worlds & Learning Management Systems Converge) 4

Mar

2009

- I have a small group exploring exactly what might be involved in a “Moodle3D” implementation (1, 2, 3) . Where middleware would seam Moodle and “Opensim, Cobalt, or Wonderland” transactions & activities. I have exchanged a few brief memos with the core Sloodle development team to start with a Sloodle to Opensim port … ...

Web 2.0 technologies are dissolving the “barriers” between people

Mar

2009

Having wrote on the subject since Nov. 15 2005 its nice to see that “The great disruption of social networks has reached its tipping point. The theory of the impact of the networked world has become real” A great piece on just how far the techology we call “Web 2.o” that includes blogs, micro-blogging, social ...

Succeed by doubling your failure rate 1

Mar

2009

The above quote was one by Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM who said “The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.” .. So sticking to my saturday http://www.ideachampions.com theme I wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes from the post here (catch the rest there): “99 percent of success is built ...

Organizational Culture of Innovation: Where new products are born

Mar

2009

Being a fan of http://www.ideachampions.com I wanted to share their “50 Ways to Foster a Sustainable Culture of Innovation” why is this important? It is where our products in 5 years will originate. The entire list of 50 are here, below are som of my favorites ! 2. Wherever you can, whenever you can, always ...

Gotta Love Moore’s Law

Mar

2009

based on Moores Law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law (since 1958) Todays IPhone/Blackberry has more computing power than the entire NASA Moon program had in 1969 ….. in five years it will be 10 times cheaper or faster ….. In 10 years its 100 times cheaper or faster. ….. in 15 years, it’s a thousand times cheaper or ...

Virtual Worlds Educator Conference Call for Presenters

Mar

2009

Virtual Worlds Educator Conference Call for Presenters form is posted: http://vweducation.ning.com/page/call-for-presenters We will also be demoing and releasing Edusim Beta 01 and the Mobile Immersive Learning Lab Prototype at the event! Cheers, Rich -

Surfaces, touching and the future of ubiquitous computing 1

Mar

2009

Looks like Microsoft see the future or interactive surfaces, touching & ubiquitous computing impacting almost EVERYTHING: Video: Future Vision Montage

The “Plausible Interactive Copy” Revisited (Again) 2

Mar

2009

I have been posting about interactive surfaces and their future of well over 2 years now, and recently about the “Plausible Interactive Copy” … Recently CNN ran a piece on shape shifting technology: A few of pact past posts on the subject: The future of interactive surfaces & the “plausible interactive copy” The evolution of ...