Open Wonderland is a free, open-source toolkit designed for creating 3D immersive virtual worlds, focused on real work, learning, and community sharing. Key features include application sharing, immersive audio, and telephone integration, enabling various educational applications like language learning and medical training. Resources for development and community engagement are available through its website and social media platforms.

1. Using Open Wonderland
In Education
Nicole Yankelovich
Executive Director
Open Wonderland Foundation
nicole@openwonderland.org

2. What is Open Wonderland?
100% Java, free, open-source toolkit for
creating 3D immersive virtual worlds
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3. Design Goals
• Enable real work / real learning
• Share applications
• Foster communities of practice
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4. Vision
• 3D Web
> Federated, specialized
virtual worlds
> Common way to express
behavior across platforms
(Java mobile code)
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5. Wonderland Core Features
• Application Sharing
> Unmodified X11 apps
> Collaboration-aware Java apps
• Immersive Audio
> Includes mix of recorded and live audio,
range of audio fidelities, individual volume
control, audio recording, and audio
applications such as the virtual
microphone and cone-of-silence
• Telephone Integration
> Includes dial-in, dial out, and connecting
avatars with telephone audio
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6. Build Worlds for...
Simulation
Collaboration with Live Docs
Mixed-Reality Interactions
3D Data Visualization and Analysis Integrating with Real World
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7. MiRTLE – University of Essex
Mixed-reality teaching
and learning
environment
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8. MiRTLE – South HS, Minneapolis, MN
Virtual
Classroom Layout Classroom
Display
Ceiling
Presentation Webcam
Board
Roof
mounted
Virtual classroom display Projectors
Instructor's Workstation
Instructor's
Desk Wonderland Client Machine
Internet Connection to WL Server
at St. Paul College
Presentation Board
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9. SIMiLLE – University of Essex
Foreign language learning
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10. + Spaces – University of Essex
Using virtual worlds to
engage the public in
government and policy
making
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11. Spanish Learning – Carlos III de Madrid
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12. ShangAI Lectures – U of Zurich
Students in Zurich and Shanghai
learning artificial intelligence
collaboratively
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13. Delivering services remotely
iSocial – U of Missouri to children with autism
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14. Bicycle Game – U of Alberta
3D bicycle-controlled game to
motivate children with cerebral
palsy to exercise
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15. COMSLIVE – Birmingham City U
Communication
skills training
for nurses and
medical
students
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16. Medical Training – IAVANTE
Simulating emergencies
Simulating medical facilities
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17. – Sun Labs
Teaching simple physics concepts
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18. Games and visualizations
TEALSim Physics - MIT for teaching electricity
and magnetism
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19. Bending Experiment – U of Graz
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20. Gouy Experiment – U of West Indies
Chemistry simulation
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21. Microscopic World - WonderBuilders
Viewing images through a remote microscope
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22. Music Browser – U of Aizu
Collaborative exploration of
world music
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23. Virtual Academy - VEGA
Training application for aircraft
maintenance
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24. Virtual Warehouse – Ngee Ann Poly
Accounting students
practice audits in a virtual
warehouse
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25. Alice Integration –
Stanford / CMU / Sun
Program animation in Alice3 Drop into WL and interact
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26. WonderSchool
Environment to teach
children to program
remotely
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27. Sorting - WonderBuilders
Computer
science
learning
environment
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28. Subsnapshots – OWL Community
Learning to program collaboratively
in weekly Wonderland Wednesday
sessions
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29. Open Wonderland Resources
• Open Source Project Site
> http://OpenWonderland.org
> FAQ, download code, find documentation and discussion forum
• WonderBlog - Ofcial Wonderland Blog
> http://blogs.openwonderland.org
• Facebook and Twitter
> http://facebook.com/openwonderland
> http://twitter.com/openwonderland - use hashtag: #openwonderland
• Workshops
> “Learn to Build an Open Wonderland Virtual World”
http://www.eventbrite.com/s/3sUB
> “Basics of Open Wonderland Development”
http://www.eventbrite.com/s/3sXd
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