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Challenges/Questions
if second life really does open source their server software, then we need to ask the question if it makes more sense to work with what we can within second life right now, with the expectation that once the server is open sourced, the key criteria of extensibiloity, distributed architecture, etc. will all be met-- and we'll still keep the user base and familiarity, and be able to add key capabilities we intend to add to any implementation.
the challenge is that there's truly no indication of WHEN this will happen. it's essentially a gamble about adoption and staying power, and what will become a standard. on the other hand, we need to expect that a project like this will go through many iterations, and cannot let ourselves be paralyzed by trying to guess the future.
give this, it might make more sense to just go ahead with a platform like croquet that is ready N]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:45:26 +0000 mod MetaMoon http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/MetaMoon email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy edited MetaMoon sophisticated general environment
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(note: David's writeup is here, which i made a few contributions to as well):
What Is It?
A 3D, immersive, online, massively multiplayer virtual recreation of the earth's moon. Implemented with:
sophisticated general environment
relatively undeveloped scientific visualization and analysis capabilities
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cross platform
MUPPETSM.U.P.P.E.T.S
java and c#
more focused on the science/physics and visualization side
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WhatWhat Is It?
A 3D, immersive, online, massively multiplayer virtual recreation of the earth's moon. Implemented with:
open source framework (server and client open source, most likely using something like Croquet).
If NASA is to realize the sentiment that virtual worlds enable us to "all go to space", we need a virtual environment that will support all these capabilities, and that will at its core welcome and support participation from an unrestricted audience.
Implementation
PossibilitiesAssuming we start from an existing platform such as one of the ones below, the bulk of the work associated with this project would be expected t]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:32:26 +0000 mod MetaMoon http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/MetaMoon email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy edited MetaMoon Context (where did this come from/what's the motivation)
NASA's CoLab project has been working on efforts to make space exploration more "participatory", more hands on, and more accessible (from the policy through to the technology and science). NASA CoLab island in Second Life was NASA's first foray into virtual environments, and has met with resounding support and enthusiasm. CoLab island has been highlighted on MSNBC, Wired, O'Reilly Radar, and has built a large community of active contributors -- people who build projects or content, or use the island to enhance collaboration on space-related projects. It has also been a suprising success with respect to inter-center collaboration. CoLab has participants from NASA Goddard, JSC, KSC, Ames, and JPL.
doesnt currently (currently) provide terribly sophisticated scientific data visualization tools, has poor dataset import/export
Implementation Process
Implementation]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:13:03 +0000 mod MetaMoon http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/MetaMoon email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy edited MetaMoon advance state of the art in extensible online 3D immersive environments, in particular with respect to data analysis capabilities, in-world toolsets, and open architectures
help to make science as an activity more intuitive, fun and accessible.
Context (where did this come from/what's the motivation)
NASA's CoLab project has been working on efforts to make space exploration more "participatory", more hands on, and more accessible (from the policy through to the technology and science). NASA CoLab island in Second Life was NASA's first foray into virtual environments, and has met with resounding support and enthusiasm. CoLab island has been highlighted on MSNBC, Wired, O'Reilly Radar, and has built a large community of active contributors -- people who build projects or content, or use the island to enhance collaboration on space-related projects. It has also been a suprising success with respect to inter-center collaboration. CoLab has participants from NASA Goddard, JSC, KSC, Ames, an]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:08:54 +0000 mod MetaMoon http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/MetaMoon email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy added MetaMoon

 


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What


A 3D, immersive, online, massively multiplayer virtual recreation of the earth's moon. Implemented with:



  • open source framework (server and client open source, most likely using something like Croquet).

  • with a distributed architecture (anyone can host content for this environment, though the main content would mostly be expected to be NASA, maybe yahoo!?)

  • with extensible, user-generated content, potentially implementing the notion of different conceptual "layers" which can be enabled/disabled, for example, a "science" layer might display all datasets uploaded by users; a "virtual settlements" layer might display all virtual settlements created by users, and a "fantasy" layer might enable users to explore content or activities outside the realms of physics. 

  • the ability for users to develop and contribute their modules/extensions to the capabilities of the environment itself (cf. data analysi
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Yahoo! Brickhouse and NASA Ames Research Center propose to create an online virtual world and community, based on the actual geography and physics of the earth's moon. This virtual world would be an interative, online 3-dimensional environment, with support for "massively multiplayer" interactions, and would incorporate a set of 3D data analysis tools to]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:48:55 +0000 mod Virtual Worlds http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/Virtual+Worlds email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy added Virtual Worlds

Project Moon Colony/MetaMoon


Yahoo! Brickhouse and NASA Ames Research Center propose to create an online virtual world and community, based on the actual geography and physics of the earth's moon. This virtual world would be an interative, online 3-dimensional environment, with support for "massively multiplayer" interactions, and would incorporate a set of 3D data analysis tools to explore and extend existing datasets. This would would be built as an open platform, and designed inherently to be extensible and customizable.


 


 


 


Background


Virtual worlds such as Second Life or World of Warcraft have become a "second" home for people as they live their daily lives. Yahoo! has very little insight on the impact and power that online virtual worlds represent. NASA is looking for an interesting opportunity to work with Yahoo! T

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this is either people i've talked to about coming over for dinner, interesting people i've met, etc. So we dont forget!
(note: please add your contact info here too!)
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discuss the future of virtual environments as a platform and their role in human society (think: next 100 years)
key trends that this will leverage and extend.
i think this is useful because as virtual worlds in general grow and mature, the opportunities for supporting space exploration will also grow and mature, hence thinking beyond where we currently Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:39:26 +0000 mod MyWikis http://jessykate.pbwiki.com/MyWikis email.hidden@example.com (Jessy) Jessy added MyWikis

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email:


we humans are now beginning to have gigabytes and gigabytes of emails over the course of our lifetime. we dont even know how much email a typical person will have over the course of an entire lifetime-- no one that has been born post-introduction of email has had the chance to live out a naturally long life. we are probably looking at on the order of 100GB of email per person per lifetime. this is currently already not particularly manageable on personal laptops without awkward backup scemes (you know you jave one, dont deny it), and no online email service, even google, has storage to accomodate this. the problem of having email that is consistently accessible, that is not bogged down by massive index files which get too big, and that does not require constant manual backups, archiving, etc. and further, email protocols which do not suck (which goes beyond just the storage issue) do not yet exist. we need persistent always on storage plus a well-implemented IMAP protocol. 


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