Open Source Platform

for interconnected virtual worlds

3rd of March, 2008

Interest toward realXtend all over the world

Virtual world development took a step to a new era when realXtend was published. We have already got several contacts from Japan, Australia, USA and many European countries.

"We feel enthusiastic about application possibilities discussed. One of the problems we want to correct is the complexity of maintaining multiple, disconnected online identities. UCI already has an identification and authentication service for its 50,000+ students, faculty and staff, and we want our OpenSim grid to take advantage of that. We are pleased to see that realXtend´s OpenSim extensions already do what we want."

Professor Crista Lopes, University of California Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, USA

"realXtend's technology is helping us make a huge impression with our customers, and a noticeable buzz within the industry. The superior visual quality we can deliver to our customers makes a lasting first impression, and gives us a measurable competitive advantage. realXtend's commitment to working with the greater community ensures a healthy future for the industry. We look forward to continue working with realXtend to help push the state of the art in Virtual World systems."

CTO Taku Kamata, 3Di, Tokyo, Japan

"The work realXtend has done is extremely impressive. We are presenting it to people in the entertainment industry and getting excellent feedback. I am sure we will be using it for a number of projects in 2008."

CEO Rohan Freeman, The Sine Wave Company, London, UK.

"The realXtend viewer is an open-source browser for an open Metaverse, the emerging web of open virtual environments that will one day merge with, and potentially replace, the web as we know it today. The Metaverse will require many new tools, including tools for content creation, publishing, commerce and search. We are proud that realXtend has selected Metaverse Ink as the default search provider for the realXtend browser, so that we can jointly create an open, scalable, and practically useful Metaverse."

Professor William Cook, University of Texas Austin and co-founder of Metaverse Ink, USA

"The City of Oulu will take advantage of realXtend to develop future Oulu and its school system. We are participating member of the Innovative Schools program (School of the Future project). Having realXtend as a tool we can create something totally new to teaching and learning. We are proud that our city, known much from technology, can create such an innovating virtual environment. It is in our strategy to support companies combining technological expertise to cultural and artistic knowledge. Interactive content and creative industries are part of our future mission. Oulu already provides free wireless Internet access to visitors and citizens. Now our region has stepped in the lead of develop virtual worlds. It is awesome but I´m not surprised."

Mayor Matti Pennanen, City of Oulu, Finland

"realXtend propose une solution adaptée à nos besoins : serveur et viewer ouverts, un moteur de rendu de qualité, une compatibilité Second life, un script puissant, une architecture ouverture sur l'extérieur ( Database, Web, Media, remote) . Nous sommes fière d'être l'une des première équipe à expérimenter les solutions RealXtend . EN-ER est un programme de recherche de L'école Nationale Supérieur des arts Décoratifs de Paris. Notre objectif est de penser et de développer de nouvelles pratiques artistiques dans les univers Virtuels. Nous cherchons une plate-forme libre, ouverte et puissante pour développer nos expérimentations.

Professeur François Garnier, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Paris

"realXtend proposes a solution adapted to our needs: Open server and viewer, high quality graphics engine, Second life compatibility, Scripting, architecture open on outside (Database, Web, Media, remote). We are proud to be one of the first teams to try out realXtend solutions. EN-ER is a research program of the Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Our objective is to think and develop new artistic practices in the Virtual Universes. We are looking for an open and powerful platform to develop our experiments."

Professor François Garnier, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Paris

Additional information:

realXtend Project Manager
Jani Pirkola  jani.pirkola@realxtend.org

realXtend Communications
Ville Wittenberg  ville.wittenberg@ludocraft.com

http://www.realXtend.org/
http://www.opensimulator.org/
http://www.adminotech.com/
http://www.ludocraft.com/

realXtend is a partnership of two Finnish companies, ADMINO technologies and LudoCraft.