About Us

ABOUT In the context of Immersive Education the term platform refers to any virtual reality or 3D game-based environment that may be used for teaching or training purposes. The Immersive Education platform has evolved considerably over the past decade and work on the 3rd generation (“next generation”) platform is underway with the core infrastructure selection process scheduled to be complete in January 2008. Core infrastructure platforms under consideration for the next generation of Immersive Education include Second Life, Croquet, Quake, Wonderland, World of Warcraft, Multiverse, Panda3D, Flux, Crystal Space + CEL, and many more. Minimal baseline requirements for the next generation platform include support for the Windows and Macintosh operating systems; implementation available as open source code; vendor-neutral client and server architectures (no lock-in); stable and reliable runtime implementations; integrated text chat and voice chat; high resolution graphics; multi-user support for collaborative environments; highly customizable avatars that support high resolution graphics and body animation (gestures); support for user-created content.