Presentation by Toni Alatalo of realXtend.org at the Nordic Virtual Worlds Network Meeting on April 13, 201l.

1. The realXtend project Open SourcePlatform for InterconnectedVirtualWorlds Presentation at #NVWN NordicVirtualWorldsMeeting April 2011

3. Currentlyfour main developmentcompanies:

4. LudoCraft(www.ludocraft.com)

5. Evocativi (www.evocativi.com)

6. Playsign (www.playsign.net)

7. Studio Enne (www.enne.es)

8. An open sourceprojectcoordinatedby the realXtendassociation (founded in 04/2011)

9. developers and userscanbecomemembers

10. Center for Internet Excellence (cie.fi) at University of Oulu helps to run the assoc

11. NameownedbyrealXtendfoundationwhich is also a channel for supporters to fund the project

13. Later (early 2009) due to technical and licensingconstraints with the Linden Labviewer, wedecided to startwork on the next-generation Naali (Arctic Fox) viewer

14. Firstend-user version released in early 2010

15. Completelyreplaced the earlier version bylate 2010

16. 2H / 2010 workbegan on the Tundra servermodule

17. Lightweight

18. Off-linemodeincluded

19. In early 2011, sofarall the developers and manyusershavemigrated to Tundra (as an alternative to Opensim)

21. Chosen as the partner for the SmithsonianprojectbyImmersiveEducationInitiative

22. Virtualrealitytechnologyoffersfantasticpossibilitiesifyouknowhow to utilizeit

23. The developmentcompanieshaveaccumulated know-how on both the technology and itsuse for business cases

24. Rightnowit’simportant to findpartners with mostpotentialusecases

26. Non-profit platform development

27. If you don’t know who else to contact, Antti is always a good choice

28. Lead architect Toni Alatalo about tech (toni@playsign.net)

29. Mailing lists

30. http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend (users/general)

31. http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev (development)

32. #realxtend & #realxtend-dev on irc on freenode

33. Companies contacts

34. www.ludocraft.com

35. www.evocativi.com

36. www.playsign.net

38. Nantes Project

39. School of the Future –Project

40. School of the Future –Project

41. Avatar technology

42. Chesapeake Bay demo

44. UI elements are downloaded from servers, not bundled in the viewer

45. Custom client-server functionality is easy to add – there is no hardcoded protocol that defines a fixed featureset