As many of you know, I’m still quite interested in virtual worlds and 3D immersive environments though I certainly don’t spend as much time in Second Life as I did several years ago. So from time to time I poke around and see what people are working on, and tonight I came across the Sirikata project from the Stanford Virtual Worlds Group in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
Documentation is a bit sparse, but the code has been released under the BSD license and is written in C++. Here’s the teaser video they’ve produced:
Sirikata Teaser from Sirikata on Vimeo.
The big player in open source virtual world platforms is OpenSim, an “extended subset” of Second Life. Croquet is another open source entry in this space.
For some of the research work by the Sirikata team, see
Daniel Horn, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Tahir Azim, Michael J. Freedman, Philip Levis, “Scaling Virtual Worlds with a Physical Metaphor,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 50-54, July-Sept. 2009, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2009.54
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